CVE-2007-1734 Information

Description

The DCCP support in the do_dccp_getsockopt function in net/dccp/proto.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and later does not verify the upper bounds of the optlen value which allows local users running on certain architectures to read kernel memory or cause a denial of service (oops) a related issue to CVE-2007-1730.

Reference

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2511 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/463969/100/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017820 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33274 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43321