CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6921

2.1 LOW Published 2007-01-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.1

References