{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2007-11-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage (kernels from 2.6.11 up)",
    "id" : "426081",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426081"
  },
  "details" : [ "The shmem_getpage function (mm/shmem.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.11 through 2.6.23 does not properly clear allocated memory in some rare circumstances related to tmpfs, which might allow local users to read sensitive kernel data or cause a denial of service (crash)." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-09-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0885",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.13.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6417\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6417" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-6417",
  "csaw" : false
}