5.5

CVE-2020-36691

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 5.8
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.24% 0.148
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA-ADP 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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