CVE-2007-1217

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the bufprint function in capiutil.c in libcapi, as used in Linux kernel 2.6.9 to 2.6.20 and isdn4k-utils, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted CAPI packet.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.10-rc1, 2.6.10-rc2, 2.6.10-rc3, 2.6.11 (+168)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408530
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8028
http://osvdb.org/34742
http://secunia.com/advisories/24777
http://secunia.com/advisories/26379
http://secunia.com/advisories/26478
http://secunia.com/advisories/26709
http://secunia.com/advisories/26760
http://secunia.com/advisories/27528
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-23.xml
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-404.htm
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:078

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