Bug 1618259 (CVE-2007-0006) - CVE-2007-0006 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2007-0006 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2007-0006
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:48 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:48:46 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:48:40 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:53:21 UTC 
MITRE description:

The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference, as originally reported as "spinlock CPU recursion."
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