CVE-2006-7254

low-risk

Published 2019-04-10

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.

Do I need to act?

0.04% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 5.5/10 Medium

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Glibc

Affected Vendors

Gnu

References (2)

Issue Tracking https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2498

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low-risk

Severity 18/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal