CVE-2006-7254: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: before 2.5 (fixed in 2.5)

Published 2019-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.