CVE-2006-1624

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

The default configuration of syslogd in the Linux sysklogd package does not enable the -x (disable name lookups) option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via messages with spoofed source IP addresses.

The default configuration of syslogd in the Linux sysklogd package does not enable the -x (disable name lookups) option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via messages with spoofed source IP addresses.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-04-05 10:04:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-18 16:33:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.20.1

2.6.20.1

References

20060331 DoS-ing sysklogd?

20060402 RE: DoS-ing sysklogd?

sysklogd-sourceip-dos(25672)

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