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CVE-2006-4535

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2006-09-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.17.10 and 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SCTP socket with a certain SO_LINGER value, possibly related to the patch for CVE-2006-3745. NOTE: older kernel versions for specific Linux distributions are also affected, due to backporting of the CVE-2006-3745 patch.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References