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CVE-2006-2629
Published: May 27, 2006
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
25847
vdb-entry
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linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)
vdb-entry
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ADV-2006-2070
vdb-entry
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18183
vdb-entry
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[linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash
mailing-list
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20349
third-party-advisory
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