CVE-2007-6712

CVE-2007-6712 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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