CVE-2007-2172

CVE-2007-2172 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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