{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-03-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: infinite loop in highres timers (kernel hang)",
    "id" : "439999",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439999"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-835",
  "details" : [ "Integer overflow in the hrtimer_forward function (hrtimer.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a timer with a large expiry value, which causes the timer to always be expired." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0585",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-05-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0275",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.21.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6712\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6712" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-6712",
  "csaw" : false
}