CVE-2007-3104 (GCVE-0-2007-3104)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-06-26 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
21 references
Date Public
2007-06-25 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.