CVE-2006-4535 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-4535?

CVE-2006-4535 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Sep 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4535?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-4535?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2006-4535 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4535 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-wpj5-xrgp-rfqj.