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CVE-2007-6694

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6694 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Linux kernel versions 2.4.21 through 2.6.18-53 on PowerPC systems, including Apple products. A local attacker could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the chrp_show_cpuinfo function, causing the system to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity due to its potential for a complete system outage. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.3:pre3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0259 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6694Moderate

/proc/cpuinfo DoS on some ppc machines

Nov 23, 2007

References

marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/28696
secunia.com / advisories/28748
secunia.com / advisories/29058
secunia.com / advisories/29236
secunia.com / advisories/30018
secunia.com / advisories/30515
secunia.com / advisories/30769
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11215
usn.ubuntu.com / 614-1
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1503
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1504
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1565
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0154.html
securityfocus.com / bid/27555
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-618-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0380