CVE-2006-2451 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-2451 at MITRE

Description

The suid_dumpable support in Linux kernel 2.6.13 up to versions before 2.6.17.4, and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.24, allows a local user to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly gain privileges via the PR_SET_DUMPABLE argument of the prctl function and a program that causes a core dump file to be created in a directory for which the user does not have permissions.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 186980 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:042, published Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:047, published Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:049, published Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:016, published Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:017, published Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:49:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:20 2023