{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-11-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel hang via userspace PTRACE+waitid",
    "id" : "382161",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=382161"
  },
  "details" : [ "The wait_task_stopped function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.8 checks a TASK_TRACED bit instead of an exit_state value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (machine crash) via unspecified vectors.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-01-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0055",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5500\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5500" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-5500",
  "csaw" : false
}