CVE-2021-46915
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 06:53
Modified
2024-11-04 11:55
Severity ?
Summary
netfilter: nft_limit: avoid possible divide error in nft_limit_init
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01fb1626b620cb37a65ad08e0f626489e8f042efPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bb3ee4259936cc3b2d80a4a480bbb4868575071Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9065ccb9ec92c5120e7e97958397ebdb454f23d6Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b895bdf5d643b6feb7c60856326dd4feb6981560Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc1732baa9da5b68621586bf8636ebbc27dc62d2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fadd3c4afdf3d4c21f4d138502f8b76334987e26Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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