CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1357

7.8 HIGH Published 2007-04-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The atalk_sum_skb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AppleTalk frame that is shorter than the specified length, which triggers a BUG_ON call when an attempt is made to perform a checksum.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.20.4)

References