Bug 453135 (CVE-2007-5966)

Summary:	CVE-2007-5966 kernel: non-root can trigger cpu_idle soft lockup
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amwang, anton, dhoward, gnichols, johnp, jpirko, jskrabal, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lwang, rcvalle, tglx, wtogami
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5966
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Bug Depends On:	411221, 418061, 418071, 453136, 518744, 549235
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Description Mark J. Cox 2008-06-27 14:33:04 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5966 to the following vulnerability:

Integer overflow in the hrtimer_start function in kernel/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (panic) via a large relative timeout value.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Refences:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485282/100/0/threaded
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.10
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2038
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1436
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00002.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-574-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26880
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/4225
http://secunia.com/advisories/28105
http://secunia.com/advisories/28088
http://secunia.com/advisories/28141
http://secunia.com/advisories/28706
http://secunia.com/advisories/28806

Comment 6 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-06-11 04:03:59 UTC

mrg-1 kernel has 5a7780e725d1bb4c3094fcc12f1c5c5faea1e988 fix.

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-04 13:15:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1193 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1193.html

Comment 21 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-08-11 01:48:07 UTC

More info can be found here:
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2007-5966.html

Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2010-02-02 21:01:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Z Stream

Via RHSA-2010:0079 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0079.html