CVE-2006-2936

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Sep 23, 2026

Description

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jul 10, 2006
Last modified
Sep 23, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2006-2936: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix