CVE-2007-6712

2008-04-1200:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.4%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
kees	fixed upstream in two ways (see patch list)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu7.04noarchlinux-source-2.6.20< 2.6.20-17.37UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlinux-source-2.6.22< 2.6.22-15.56UNKNOWN