CVE-2006-2451: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The suid_dumpable support in Linux kernel 2.6.13 up to versions before 2.6.17.4, and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.24, allows a local user to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly gain privileges via the PR_SET_DUMPABLE argument of the prctl function and a program that causes a core dump file to be created in a directory for which the user does not have permissions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.13 only; version 2.6.13.1 only; version 2.6.13.2 only; version 2.6.13.3 only; version 2.6.13.4 only; version 2.6.13.5 only; …

Published 2006-07-07. Last modified 2026-09-23.