CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6712
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Integer overflow in the hrtimer_forward function (hrtimer.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a timer with a large expiry value, which causes the timer to always be expired.
Affected configurations
• kernel linux kernel 2.6.21 rc4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=13788ccc41ceea5893f9c747c59bc0b28f2416c2 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30294 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30368 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30818 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31107 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31628 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29294 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9210 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=13788ccc41ceea5893f9c747c59bc0b28f2416c2 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30294 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30368 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30818 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31107 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31628 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29294 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41827 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9210 oval.cisecurity.org