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CVE-2006-7254

Published: 10 April 2019

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
eglibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

glibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H