CVE-2007-6712 - Secunia.com

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6712
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41827 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30818 Secunia Advisory: SA30294 Secunia Advisory: SA30368 Secunia Advisory: SA31107 Secunia Advisory: SA31628 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9210 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=13788ccc41ceea5893f9c747c59bc0b28f2416c2 BID 29294

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