CVE-2006-0228: Grsecurity Kernel Patch

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The RBAC functionality in grsecurity before 2.1.8 does not properly handle when the admin role creates a service and then exits the shell without unauthenticating, which causes the service to be restarted with the admin role still active.

Affected products

• Grsecurity Grsecurity Kernel Patch: version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; …

Published 2006-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.