CVE-2006-1860 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1860?

CVE-2006-1860 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 May 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

lease_init in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (fcntl_setlease lockup) via actions that cause lease_init to free a lock that might not have been allocated on the stack.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1860?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1860?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-1860 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cm9q-c7f4-2rw5.