CVE-2006-2629
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 27, 2006
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- May 26, 2006
Description
Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6.15 to 2.6.17, when running on SMP platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating and exiting a large number of tasks, then accessing the /proc entry of a task that is exiting, which causes memory corruption that leads to a failure in the prune_dcache function or a BUG_ON error in include/linux/list.h.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 25847vdb-entry
- linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)vdb-entry
- ADV-2006-2070vdb-entry
- 18183vdb-entry
- [linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrashmailing-list
- 20349third-party-advisory
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