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Tracker / CVE-2007-2172

CVE-2007-2172

Medium 4.7

A typo in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.21-rc6 and 2.4 before 2.4.35 causes RTA_MAX to be used as an array size instead of RTN_MAX, which leads to an "out of bound access" by the (1) dn_fib_props (dn_fib.c, DECNet) and (2) fib_props (fib_semantics.c, IPv4) functions.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.4.0 → 2.4.35
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.0 → 2.6.20

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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