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CVE-2007-6712

Published: 12/04/2008 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the hrtimer_forward function (hrtimer.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a timer with a large expiry value, which causes the timer to always be expired.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: linux, linux-source-2.6.15/20/22 vulnerabilities
Dirk Nehring discovered that the IPsec protocol stack did not correctly handle fragmented ESP packets A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2007-6282) ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1588-1 linux-2.6 -- denial of service
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-6712 Johannes Bauer discovered an integer overflow condition in the hrtimer subsystem on 64-bit systems This can be exploited by local users to ...

References

CWE-189http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30294http://secunia.com/advisories/30368http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31107http://secunia.com/advisories/30818http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31628http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29294https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41827https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9210http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=13788ccc41ceea5893f9c747c59bc0b28f2416c2https://usn.ubuntu.com/625-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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