CVE-2006-2629

Severity

40%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux Kernel

First reported 18 years ago

2006-05-27 10:02:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:31:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.15

2.6.15

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.1

2.6.15.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.2

2.6.15.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.3

2.6.15.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.4

2.6.15.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.5

2.6.15.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.15.6

2.6.15.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.16

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 1

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 2

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 3

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 4

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 5

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16 Release Candidate 6

2.6.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.1

2.6.16.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.2

2.6.16.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.3

2.6.16.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.4

2.6.16.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.5

2.6.16.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.6

2.6.16.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.7

2.6.16.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.8

2.6.16.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.9

2.6.16.9

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.10

2.6.16.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.11

2.6.16.11

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.12

2.6.16.12

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.13

2.6.16.13

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.14

2.6.16.14

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.15

2.6.16.15

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.16

2.6.16.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.17

2.6.16.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.16.18

2.6.16.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.17

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Release Candidate 1

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Release Candidate 2

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Release Candidate 3

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Release Candidate 4

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 Release Candidate 5

2.6.17

References

[linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash

20349

25847

18183

ADV-2006-2070

linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)

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