CVE-2006-7254 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-7254?

CVE-2006-7254 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 10 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.

Weakness: CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7254?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gnu Glibc.

How do I fix CVE-2006-7254?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2006-7254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-7254 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2005-3590 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8

All Gnu Glibc vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-7254, GHSA-4678-ch99-9rjx.