CVE-2007-0997: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the tee (sys_tee) system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.17.6 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents), or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to a potentially dropped ipipe lock during a race between two pipe readers.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.17 only; version 2.6.17.1 only; version 2.6.17.2 only; version 2.6.17.3 only; version 2.6.17.4 only; version 2.6.17.5 only; …

Published 2007-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.