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CVE-2007-3731

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3731 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Linux kernel versions 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. It arises from improper handling of an invalid LDT segment selector during ptrace single-step operations, allowing a local attacker to trigger a NULL dereference and system crash (OOPS). With a CVSS score of 4.9, this vulnerability is of low severity, requiring local access with low attack complexity to achieve a complete system availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 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 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3731Moderate

NULL pointer dereference triggered by ptrace

Jul 15, 2007

References

bugzilla.kernel.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
osvdb.org / 37286
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/26935
secunia.com / advisories/26955
secunia.com / advisories/26978
secunia.com / advisories/27322
secunia.com / advisories/29159
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-2304
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10394
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0094
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1378
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0940.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/488972/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/25801
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-518-1