CVE-2006-3635

medium

Description

The ia64 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that leverages the mishandling of invalid Register Stack Engine (RSE) state.

References

Advisories
More

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=199440

http://ftp.naist.jp/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-07

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H