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CVE-2006-2629

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
27/05/2006
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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