Bug 310441 (CVE-2007-5087)

Summary:	CVE-2007-5087 User triggerable kernel panic in ATM
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gnichols, johnp, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, rt-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5087
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-28 07:54:14 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5087 to the following vulnerability:

The ATM module in the Linux kernel before 2.4.35.3, when CLIP support is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading /proc/net/atm/arp before the CLIP module has been loaded.

References:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.35.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7ae15e7707050baafe5a35e3d4f2d175197d222
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.35.3
http://lwn.net/Articles/251162/
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3246

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-28 08:02:40 UTC

        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: FC7
        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: FC6
        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: RHEL5
        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: RHEL4 (2.6)
        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: RHEL3 (no atm.o, nor clip.o)
        CVE-2007-5087 Doesn't Affect: RHEL2.1 (no atm.o, nor clip.o)

Comment 2 Jonathan Larmour 2007-09-28 10:42:45 UTC

I appear to be on the CC list mistakenly.