Security Advisory

CVE-2020-36691

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-03-24 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-02-21 16:03:42
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8. lib/nlattr.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion) via a nested Netlink policy with a back reference.