CVE-2006-1855

Published May 18, 2006

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
choose_new_parent in Linux kernel before 2.6.11.12 includes certain debugging code, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by causing certain circumstances involving termination of a parent process.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.1
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations