CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2445

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-06-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-06-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Race condition in run_posix_cpu_timers in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON crash) by causing one CPU to attach a timer to a process that is exiting.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.0 • linux linux kernel 2.6.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.15 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.16 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.17 … and 4 more

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