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CVE-2006-3635

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ia64 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that leverages the mishandling of invalid Register Stack Engine (RSE) state.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.25.20

References

• http://ftp.naist.jp/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=199440
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418
• http://ftp.naist.jp/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=199440
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4dcc29e1574d88f4465ba865ed82800032f76418

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