CVE-2006-5648 (GCVE-0-2006-5648)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-03 15:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Ubuntu Linux 6.10 for the PowerPC (PPC) allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the (1) sys_get_robust_list and (2) sys_set_robust_list functions to create processes that cannot be killed.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-03 15:29 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
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| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2006-12-13 00:00
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Nomenclature
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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