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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2007-3731 Detail

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 does not properly handle an invalid LDT segment selector in %cs (the xcs field) during ptrace single-step operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and OOPS) via certain code that makes ptrace PTRACE_SETREGS and PTRACE_SINGLESTEP requests, related to the TRACE_IRQS_ON function, and possibly related to the arch_ptrace function.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/18/2007)

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8765 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=29eb51101c02df517ca64ec472d7501127ad1da8 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a10d9a71bafd3a283da240d2868e71346d2aef6f CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://osvdb.org/37286 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26935 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26955 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26978 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/27322 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29159 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1378 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0940.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488972/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25801 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-518-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248324 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2304 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10394 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3731
NVD Published Date:
09/17/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.