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ghsa-m5p2-59ff-782g

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-03-24 18:30

Modified

2023-03-29 15:30

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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    "CVE-2020-36691"
  ],
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  "modified": "2023-03-29T15:30:18Z",
  "published": "2023-03-24T18:30:21Z",
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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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7690aa1cdf7c4565ad6b013b324c28b685505e24

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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