Linux Kernel Unspecified "init_timer()" Security Issue

Friday, December 29 2006 @ 11:55 AM EST

Contributed by: sde

A security issue with an unknown impact has been reported in Linux Kernel.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c as the "isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state()" function never initialises an event timer before scheduling it with the "add_timer()" function.

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