CVE-2007-0771

CVE-2007-0771 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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