CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-7254

Published: Apr 10, 2019 | Modified: Apr 11, 2019

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

5.5 MODERATE

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7254
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/19.html

The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Glibc	Gnu	*	2.5 (excluding)

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2498

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