CVE-2020-36691
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8. lib/nlattr.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion) via a nested Netlink policy with a back reference.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7690aa1cdf7c4565ad6b013b324c28b685505e24Patch
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