Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2006-4145
The Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem driver in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang and crash) via certain operations involving truncated files, as demonstrated via the dd command.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (36.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 36.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel — versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/21934 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27227 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21695 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10796 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/31685 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/16/6
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0665.html (vendor-advisory)