EPSS
Percentile
9.0%
A flaw was found in lib/nlattr.c in the Linux kernel, before 5.8. This issue may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion) through a nested Netlink policy with a back reference.
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181614
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7690aa1cdf7c4565ad6b013b324c28b685505e24
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36691
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36691