CVE-2007-1217: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the bufprint function in capiutil.c in libcapi, as used in Linux kernel 2.6.9 to 2.6.20 and isdn4k-utils, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted CAPI packet.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.9 only; version 2.6.10 only; version 2.6.11 only; version 2.6.11.1 only; version 2.6.11.2 only; version 2.6.11.3 only; …

Published 2007-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.