VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-4145

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-08-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem driver in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang and crash) via certain operations involving truncated files, as demonstrated via the dd command.

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