Security Advisory

CVE-2007-1861

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-05-07 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 13:13:40
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The nl_fib_lookup function in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c in Linux Kernel before 2.6.20.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP replies, which trigger infinite recursion and a stack overflow.