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CVE-2006-0956

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

nuauth in NuFW before 1.0.21 does not properly handle blocking TLS sockets, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service hang) by flooding packets at the authentication server.

Affected products

• Nufw Firewall: 1.0.20

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/19046
• http://www.nufw.org/+NuFW-1-21-minor-security-fix+.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16868
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0762
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19046
• http://www.nufw.org/+NuFW-1-21-minor-security-fix+.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16868
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0762

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