CVE-2020-36691

Published March 24th, 2023

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CVSS v3

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

Description

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.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

GitHub

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