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CVE-2007-3104

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3104 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the sysfs_readdir function of the Linux kernel 2.6, impacting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 and other distributions. An unauthenticated local attacker can trigger a kernel OOPS by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low attack complexity and local access requirement, leading to a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-0:2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3104Moderate

Null pointer to an inode in a dentry can cause an oops in sysfs_readdir

Jun 22, 2007

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html
osvdb.org / 37115
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25771
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25838
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26289
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26643
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26651
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27912
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28033
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28643
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11233
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1428
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html
securityfocus.com / bid/24631
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-508-1
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-509-1
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-510-1