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.
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-488 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2451 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11336 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2451 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-07-07T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:51:04.543Z

Reserved: 2006-05-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-2451

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-07-07T18:05:00.000

Modified: 2023-11-07T01:58:49.620

Link: CVE-2006-2451

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-07-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-2451 - Bugzilla