CVE-2007-5966

CVE-2007-5966 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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