Linux -- Kernel when running on PowerPC

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Subject: Linux -- Kernel when running on PowerPC
From: "Patrizio O.C. Melis" <cobe571@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:40:57 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] c3b70bb10802041040g77c71959ube22f43f0a4cbbc1@mail.gmail.com>

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.

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-6694

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119576191029571&w=2

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