FKIE_CVE-2007-2172
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-04-22 19:19 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:39
Severity
Summary
A typo in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.21-rc6 and 2.4 before 2.4.35 causes RTA_MAX to be used as an array size instead of RTN_MAX, which leads to an "out of bound access" by the (1) dn_fib_props (dn_fib.c, DECNet) and (2) fib_props (fib_semantics.c, IPv4) functions.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.04 |
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