Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2006-2936

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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