CVE-2007-5966 (GCVE-0-2007-5966)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in the hrtimer_start function in kernel/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (panic) via a large relative timeout value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
24 references
Date Public
2007-12-14 00:00
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