CVE-2007-3739: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mm/mmap.c in the hugetlb kernel, when run on PowerPC systems, does not prevent stack expansion from entering into reserved kernel page memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only

Published 2007-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.