| Name | CVE-2007-6694 |
| Description | The chrp_show_cpuinfo function (chrp/setup.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.21 through 2.6.18-53, when running on PowerPC, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that cause the of_get_property function to fail, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1503-1, DSA-1503-2, DSA-1504-1, DSA-1565-1 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
- linux-2.6.24 <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload, upstream in 2.6.24)
Upstream commit 9ac71d00398674aaec664f30559f0a21d963862f, part of 2.6.24