Uncontrolled Recursion
CVE-2020-36691
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.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
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- LOW
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- HIGH
CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published