CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.6. It affects Linux. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2007-1730
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.6
EPSS
0.77%
Linux
Original NVD 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.