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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-04-10T19:52:58

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:57:40.872Z

Reserved: 2019-04-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-7254

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-04-10T20:29:00.287

Modified: 2019-04-11T01:59:44.987

Link: CVE-2006-7254

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-7254 - Bugzilla