CVE-2006-7254

glibc: Not closing unhadleable client sockets due to nscd daemon leads to DoS.

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 31, 2006

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption