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CVE-2006-7051

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/02/2007
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.

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:2.6.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.19.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.19.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.19.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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