CVE-2006-2936

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-10 · updated 2026-09-23
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.1-rc1, 2.6.1-rc2, 2.6.1-rc3, 2.6.2 (+156)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20703
http://secunia.com/advisories/21057
http://secunia.com/advisories/21298
http://secunia.com/advisories/21605
http://secunia.com/advisories/21614
http://secunia.com/advisories/21934
http://secunia.com/advisories/22093
http://secunia.com/advisories/22174
http://secunia.com/advisories/24547
http://secunia.com/advisories/25226
http://secunia.com/advisories/25683
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-203.htm

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