2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1859

Published: 12/05/2006 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel prior to 2.6.16.16 allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."

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Vendor Advisories

An integer overflow was discovered in the do_replace() function A local user process with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with full root privileges However, none of Ubuntu’s supported packages use this capability with any non-root user, so this only affects you if you use some third party software l ...