NVD

Id
61314  
Name
CVE-2006-2629  
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
4  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
4  
CVSS Impact Subscore
6.9  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
1.9  
CVSS Vector
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)  
Pub Date
2016-12-20  
Published
2006-05-27  
Modified Date
2016-10-17  
Seq
2006-2629  

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316812 61314 CVE-2006-2629 [linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash  View
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316814 61314 CVE-2006-2629 ADV-2006-2070  View
316815 61314 CVE-2006-2629 linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)  View

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