CVE-2006-7051

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.9)—Exploit

Severity4.9Medium · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability0.93 %higher than 60% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

The sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.

CVSS

Base score: 4.9
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.93 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 60
Score date: 10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Linux Kernel 2.6.x - 'sys_timer_create()' Local Denial of Service (4/9/2006)

Affected technologies (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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