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CVE-2007-0997
Published: Sep 18, 2007
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Race condition in the tee (sys_tee) system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.17.6 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents), or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to a potentially dropped ipipe lock during a race between two pipe readers.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[linux-kernel] 20060717 [patch 25/45] splice: fix problems with sys_tee()
mailing-list
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http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
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