CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1624

7.8 HIGH Published 2006-04-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-04-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.1

References