CVE-2007-3739 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published Updated

Local users can cause a denial of service on PowerPC systems by triggering stack expansion into reserved kernel memory.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2007-3739?

CVE-2007-3739 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 14 Sep 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

mm/mmap.c in the hugetlb kernel, when run on PowerPC systems, does not prevent stack expansion from entering into reserved kernel page memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-399, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3739?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3739?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-3739 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Enterprise Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-g9r8-mr7q-g5r2.

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