CVE-2006-1855 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-1855 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 177086 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:042, published Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:22:58 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:15:50 2023