fkie_cve-2007-5966
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-12-20 00:46
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.1 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.2 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.3 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.5 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.6 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.7 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.23.9 |
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