CVE-2006-5749

Severity: low (CVSS 1.7 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: 2006-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state function in drivers/isdn/isdn_ppp.c in the Linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.34-rc4 does not call the init_timer function for the ISDN PPP CCP reset state timer, which has unknown attack vectors and results in a system crash.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.4.34

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.34
http://secunia.com/advisories/23529
http://secunia.com/advisories/23609
http://secunia.com/advisories/23752
http://secunia.com/advisories/24098
http://secunia.com/advisories/24100
http://secunia.com/advisories/24547
http://secunia.com/advisories/25226
http://secunia.com/advisories/25683
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/linux-2.4.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=05dca9b77f99d80cf615075624666106d5b61727
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:012

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