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CVE-2006-2451

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
07/07/2006
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

The suid_dumpable support in Linux kernel 2.6.13 up to versions before 2.6.17.4, and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.24, allows a local user to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly gain privileges via the PR_SET_DUMPABLE argument of the prctl function and a program that causes a core dump file to be created in a directory for which the user does not have permissions.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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