NVD
- Id
- 65594
- Name
- CVE-2006-7051
- Description
- The sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process" memory.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.9
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.9
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.9
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2016-12-20
- Published
- 2007-02-23
- Modified Date
- 2008-09-05
- Seq
- 2006-7051