CVE-2006-2936
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.8
HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
3.0%
86.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-399
Published 2006-07-10 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.
Affected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20703
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21057
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21605
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21614
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21934
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22093
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22174
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24547
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25226
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25683
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-203.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git%3Ba=blob%3Bh=4b4d9cfea17618b80d3ac785b701faeaf60141f1%3Bhb=396eb2aac550ec55856c6843ef9017e800c3d656
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:150
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_kernel.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_21_kernel.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_30_kernel.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_35_kernel.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/27119
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0617.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440300/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19033
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-331-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-346-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2841
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197610
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27807
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10265