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Tracker / CVE-2007-2875

CVE-2007-2875

Low 2.1

Integer underflow in the cpuset_tasks_read function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.13, and 2.6.21.x before 2.6.21.4, when the cpuset filesystem is mounted, allows local users to obtain kernel memory contents by using a large offset when reading the /dev/cpuset/tasks file.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.20.13
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.21 → 2.6.21.4

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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