Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.11.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004986
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 May 2006

CVE-2006-1855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.11.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) choose_new_parent in Linux kernel before 2.6.11.12 includes certain debugging code, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by causing certain circumstances involving termination of a parent process.

CVSS Base Scores

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