VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-2451

CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-07-07
Last modified2026-09-23
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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