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CVE-2006-1855

Published: May 18, 2006 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Vulnerability-free packages from our partners
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1855
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.1 (including) 2.6.11.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.2 (including) 2.6.11.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.3 (including) 2.6.11.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.4 (including) 2.6.11.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.5 (including) 2.6.11.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.6 (including) 2.6.11.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.7 (including) 2.6.11.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.8 (including) 2.6.11.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.9 (including) 2.6.11.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.10 (including) 2.6.11.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.11.11 (including) 2.6.11.11 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-34.0.1.EL *

References

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