CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1730

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-03-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-03-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

Description

Integer signedness error in the DCCP support in the do_dccp_getsockopt function in net/dccp/proto.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and later allows local users to read kernel memory or cause a denial of service (oops) via a negative optlen value.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.20 • linux linux kernel 2.6.20.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.20.2

References