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CVE-2007-3107
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…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 66% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 66% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- RHSA-2007:0595 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 25955 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 27227 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26664 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2007:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2007:053 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 37118 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9936 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 28706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245580 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 24845 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1018347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- kernel-htx-signal-dos(35383) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-574-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 25963 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-3099 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-3107)Record last updated .