{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-07-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually",
    "id" : "461082",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461082"
  },
  "details" : [ "fs/direct-io.c in the dio subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 does not properly zero out the dio struct, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS), as demonstrated by a certain fio test." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0972",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.8.EL"
  }, {
    "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-2007-6716\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6716" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-6716",
  "csaw" : false
}