CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3271

2.1 LOW Published 2005-10-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Exec in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly clear posix-timers in multi-threaded environments, which results in a resource leak and could allow a large number of multiple local users to cause a denial of service by using more posix-timers than specified by the quota for a single user.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.0

References