CVE-2006-1509: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

/sbin/passwd in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23 before 20060326 "does not recover gracefully from some error conditions," which allows local users to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.11 only; version 11.23 only

Published 2006-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.