CVE-2007-6694 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6694
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-614-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-618-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29058 Secunia Advisory: SA28748 Secunia Advisory: SA28696 Secunia Advisory: SA29236 Secunia Advisory: SA30515 Secunia Advisory: SA30769 Secunia Advisory: SA30018 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0154.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html MLIST http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119576191029571&w=2 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1565 CONFIRM BID 27555

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