CVE-2006-5550 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service in FreeBSD and OpenBSD kernels via specific ioctl requests to /dev/crypto.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-5550?
CVE-2006-5550 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 26 Oct 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The kernel in FreeBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving certain ioctl requests to /dev/crypto.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5550?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Openbsd Openbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2006-5550?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5550 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-2006-5550 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-5550 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-jc3w-9rh7-2w22.