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LOW

security flaw

Published Jul 10, 2007

Description

The signal handling in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, including 2.6.2, when running on PowerPC systems using HTX, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving floating point corruption and concurrency, related to clearing of MSR bits.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (20)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jul 10, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 7, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 3, 2007