CVE-2006-4342 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 running on SMP systems. Local attackers can trigger a deadlock by concurrently executing shmat and shmctl (IPC_RMID) on the same shared memory segment, preventing a spinlock from being released. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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