Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6921

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-12 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:42:07
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Unspecified versions of the Linux kernel allow local users to cause a denial of service (unrecoverable zombie process) via a program with certain instructions that prevent init from properly reaping a child whose parent has died.