CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4997

7.1 HIGH Published 2007-11-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Integer underflow in the ieee80211_rx function in net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SKB length value in a runt IEEE 802.11 frame when the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag is set, aka an "off-by-two error."

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.22.7)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References