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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-2452 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-311-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195902 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20953 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20960 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20965 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20986 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20991 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21179 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21498 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21966 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016451 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-162.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.24 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_17_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_47_kernel.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_49_kernel.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/27030 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0574.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439483/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439610/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439869/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440057/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440117/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440118/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440379/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18874 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2699 cve-icon cve-icon
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

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

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

Reserved: 2006-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-2451

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-2451

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2006-2451 - Bugzilla

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