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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 24, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-36691

CVE-2020-36691

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8. lib/nlattr.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion) via a nested Netlink policy with a back reference.

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