Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5966

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-12-20 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:47:00
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the hrtimer_start function in kernel/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (panic) via a large relative timeout value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.