CVE-2007-0997

CVE-2007-0997 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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