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CVE-2007-0771

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2007-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The utrace support in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) related to "MT exec + utrace_attach spin failure mode," as demonstrated by ptrace-thrash.c.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References