CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-7229
7.5 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399, CWE-400
Description
The skge driver 1.5 in Linux kernel 2.6.15 on Ubuntu does not properly use the spin_lock and spin_unlock functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (machine crash) via a flood of network traffic.
Affected configurations
• ubuntu linux kernel 2.6.15
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28971 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26511 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-578-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/65631 bugs.launchpad.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28971 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26511 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-578-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/65631 bugs.launchpad.net