Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-03-31 CWE: CWE-400 Bugzilla: 1698738: CVE-2006-7254 glibc: Not closing unhadleable client sockets due to nscd daemon leads to DoS. The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2006-7254 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | glibc | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | glibc | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | glibc | Under investigation |
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