CVE-2006-4535
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The Linux kernel 2.6.17.10 and 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SCTP socket with a certain SO_LINGER value, possibly related to the patch for CVE-2006-3745. NOTE: older kernel versions for specific Linux distributions are also affected, due to backporting of the CVE-2006-3745 patch.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (39th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4523)
- Published
- September 19, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4523 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21945(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21967(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22082(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22093(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22292(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22382
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22945
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016992
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1183
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184
- http://www.mail-archive.com/kernel-svn-changes%40lists.alioth.debian.org/msg02314.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20087
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-347-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204460
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29011
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10530
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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