CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-1624

Published: Apr 05, 2006 | Modified: Oct 18, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The default configuration of syslogd in the Linux sysklogd package does not enable the -x (disable name lookups) option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via messages with spoofed source IP addresses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.1 2.6.20.1

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