THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-4623
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-4623

Linux Kernel vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) decapsulation component in dvb-core/dvb_net.c in the dvb driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.17.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SNDU length of 0 in a ULE packet.
Affected vendor
Linux
Affected product
Linux Kernel
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2006-09-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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