2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.5%
The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4,
when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free
names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by
AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause
a denial of service (memory consumption).