CVE-2006-4342 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
kernel-0:2.4.21-47.0.1.EL	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3	RHSA-2006:0710	2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/22497
http://secunia.com/advisories/23064
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205618
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4342
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4342

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-10-17T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:07.317Z

Reserved: 2006-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-4342

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-17T17:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-4342

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-10-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-4342 - Bugzilla

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