CVE-2006-4535

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

19/09/2006

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.17.10 and 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SCTP socket with a certain SO_LINGER value, possibly related to the patch for CVE-2006-3745. NOTE: older kernel versions for specific Linux distributions are also affected, due to backporting of the CVE-2006-3745 patch.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.17.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.17.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:rc5::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2006-4535

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools