CVE-2007-3104 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2007-3104?

CVE-2007-3104 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Jun 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3104?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3104?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2007-3104 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3104 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5f5w-qmh6-6cwf.