CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2629

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-05-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-05-27
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 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.

Affected configurations

• 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 2.6.15.6 • 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 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16.18 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17

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