CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3634

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-08-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The (1) __futex_atomic_op and (2) futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic functions in Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc4 to 2.6.18-rc2 perform the atomic futex operation in the kernel address space instead of the user address space, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.17 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18

References