CVE-2007-6694

CVE-2007-6694 · HIGH Severity

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

The chrp_show_cpuinfo function (chrp/setup.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.21 through 2.6.18-53, when running on PowerPC, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that cause the of_get_property function to fail, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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