Security Advisory

CVE-2007-6694

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-01-29 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 16:18:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The chrp_show_cpuinfo function (chrp/setup.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.21 through 2.6.18-53, when running on PowerPC, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that cause the of_get_property function to fail, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.