CVE-2006-2451

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-07-06
Bugzilla:
195902: CVE-2006-2451 Possible privilege escalation through prctl() and suid_dumpable

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The suid_dumpable support in Linux kernel 2.6.13 up to versions before 2.6.17.4, and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.24, allows a local user to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly gain privileges via the PR_SET_DUMPABLE argument of the prctl function and a program that causes a core dump file to be created in a directory for which the user does not have permissions.

Find out more about CVE-2006-2451 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2006:0574 2006-07-07

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