Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2006-4538 json

Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a mal…

published 2006-09-05 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4526

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed ELF file that triggers memory maps that cross region boundaries.

Patch / fix

  • kernel RHEL 2.1 2.4.18-e.67
  • kernel-smp RHEL 2.1 2.4.18-e.67
  • kernel-source RHEL 2.1 2.4.18-e.67
  • kernel RHEL 3 2.4.21-53.EL
  • kernel-smp RHEL 3 2.4.21-53.EL
  • kernel-BOOT RHEL 3 2.4.21-53.EL
  • kernel-source RHEL 3 2.4.21-53.EL
  • kernel-hugemem RHEL 3 2.4.21-53.EL

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0787RHSA-2007:1049RHSA-2007:0014

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-4538 updated

kernel: Local DoS with corrupted ELF

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 kernel 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-53.EL, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1049
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 kernel 2.4.18-e.67, kernel-smp 2.4.18-e.67, kernel-source 2.4.18-e.67
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0787
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 kernel 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-53.EL, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1049
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0014
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 kernel 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-53.EL, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1049
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0014
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 kernel 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-53.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-53.EL, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1049
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0014
show 1 more
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 kernel 2.4.18-e.67, kernel-smp 2.4.18-e.67, kernel-source 2.4.18-e.67
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0787

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.