CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6921

Published: Jan 12, 2007 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
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
UNTRIAGED

Unspecified versions of the Linux kernel allow local users to cause a denial of service (unrecoverable zombie process) via a program with certain instructions that prevent init from properly reaping a child whose parent has died.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.1 (including) 2.6.20.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-55.0.12.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 *
Linux-source-2.6.20 Ubuntu feisty *
Linux-source-2.6.22 Ubuntu devel *

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