CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1862
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
The virtual memory implementation in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by running lsof a large number of times in a way that produces a heavy system load.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.9
References
- http://osvdb.org/31663 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20237 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21745 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-161.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0493.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189031 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189260 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9390 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://osvdb.org/31663 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20237 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21745 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-161.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0493.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189031 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189260 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9390 oval.cisecurity.org