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CVE-2007-1730

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.6 Published: 2007-03-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Integer signedness error in the DCCP support in the do_dccp_getsockopt function in net/dccp/proto.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and later allows local users to read kernel memory or cause a denial of service (oops) via a negative optlen value.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References