CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2006-7254
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-19
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:glibc