CVE-2006-4535: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux kernel 2.6.17.10 and 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SCTP socket with a certain SO_LINGER value, possibly related to the patch for CVE-2006-3745. NOTE: older kernel versions for specific Linux distributions are also affected, due to backporting of the CVE-2006-3745 patch.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.17.10 only; version 2.6.17.11 only; version 2.6.18 only

Published 2006-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.