VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-2936

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability2.96%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-07-10
Last modified2026-09-23
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

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