CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2480

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The _udp_lib_get_port function in net/ipv4/udp.c in Linux kernel 2.6.21 and earlier does not prevent a bind to a port with a local address when there is already a bind to that port with a wildcard local address, which might allow local users to intercept local traffic for daemons or other applications.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.21)

References