CVE-2006-5648

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Dec 14, 2006
Updated: Apr 3, 2025
Reserved: Nov 1, 2006

Description

Ubuntu Linux 6.10 for the PowerPC (PPC) allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the (1) sys_get_robust_list and (2) sys_set_robust_list functions to create processes that cannot be killed.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

SUSE-SA:2006:079vendor-advisory
23361third-party-advisory
23384third-party-advisory
21582vdb-entry
23474third-party-advisory
USN-395-1vendor-advisory

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