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CVE-2006-4145

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem driver in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang and crash) via certain operations involving truncated files, as demonstrated via the dd command.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.17; 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+80)

References

• http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/16/6
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21515
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21695
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21711
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21934
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22093
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22382
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27227
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31229
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31685
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-365.htm

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