CVE-2007-0773: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux kernel before 2.6.9-42.0.8 in Red Hat 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS from null dereference) via fput in a 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit x86 systems, an incomplete fix of CVE-2005-3044.1.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.4 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.4 only

Published 2007-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.