CVE-2007-1861 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1861
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Description: The nl_fib_lookup function in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c in Linux Kernel before 2.6.20.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP replies, which trigger infinite recursion and a stack overflow.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34014 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-489-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-486-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_43_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA25961 Secunia Advisory: SA25691 Secunia Advisory: SA25288 Secunia Advisory: SA25228 Secunia Advisory: SA25083 Secunia Advisory: SA25030 Secunia Advisory: SA26133 Secunia Advisory: SA26139 Secunia Advisory: SA26620 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0347.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1289 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.8 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/467939/30/6690/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 BID 23677

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