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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-4538

Published: 05/09/2006 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

Linux kernel 2.6.17 and previous versions, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed ELF file that triggers memory maps that cross region boundaries.

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Vendor Advisories

Red Hat: Important: kernel security update
Synopsis Important: kernel security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 21 running on 64-bit architecturesThis update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities
Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the handling of SCTP sockets By opening such a socket with a special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel (CVE-2006-4535) ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1237-1 kernel-source-2.4.27 -- several vulnerabilities
Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2005-4093 Olof Johansson reported a local DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability on the PPC970 plat ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/4/116http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.11http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-347-1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19702http://secunia.com/advisories/21999http://secunia.com/advisories/21967http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233http://secunia.com/advisories/23370http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1237http://secunia.com/advisories/23395http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.htmlhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htmhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23997http://secunia.com/advisories/24206http://secunia.com/advisories/24482http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1049.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23474http://secunia.com/advisories/27913http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0787.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33280http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3670https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10301http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8833ebaa3f4325820fe3338ccf6fae04f6669254https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0787https://usn.ubuntu.com/347-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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