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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5158 Detail

Description

The nlmclnt_mark_reclaim in clntlock.c in NFS lockd in Linux kernel before 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) and deny access to NFS exports via unspecified vectors that trigger a kernel oops (null dereference) and a deadlock.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2006)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210128 This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113476665626446&w=2 CVE, MITRE Mailing List 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113494474208973&w=2 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23361 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23384 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23752 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9b5b1f5bf9dcdb6f23abf65977a675eb4deba3c0 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:012 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_57_kernel.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21581 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10128 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-667 Improper Locking cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5158
NVD Published Date:
10/05/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE