CVE-2006-1376 — The installation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1 from the network install CD creates /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf with world writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption)

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The installation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1 from the network install CD creates /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf with world writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption)

Published Mar 24, 2006

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.39%

Description

The installation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1 from the network install CD creates /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf with world writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption).

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.39% 0.00394

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00394

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.39% (0.00394)	31.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.39% (0.00385)	30.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00047)	11.84th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358210
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/19331
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25526
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358210		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/19331		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25526		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 24, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 23, 2006

Link CVE-2006-1376

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-1376

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-1376