CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3741

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-10
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 perfmonctl system call (sys_perfmonctl) in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6 before 2.6.18, when running on Itanium systems, does not properly track the reference count for file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption).

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0 • linux linux kernel 2.4.1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.3 • linux linux kernel 2.4.4 • linux linux kernel 2.4.5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.6 • linux linux kernel 2.4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.8 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 pre5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.10 • linux linux kernel 2.4.11 • linux linux kernel 2.4.12 • linux linux kernel 2.4.13 • linux linux kernel 2.4.14 • linux linux kernel 2.4.15 • linux linux kernel 2.4.16 • linux linux kernel 2.4.17 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19 • linux linux kernel 2.4.20 • linux linux kernel 2.4.21 • linux linux kernel 2.4.22 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 ow2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 ow1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.25 • linux linux kernel 2.4.26 • linux linux kernel 2.4.27 • linux linux kernel 2.4.28 • linux linux kernel 2.4.29 • linux linux kernel 2.4.30 • linux linux kernel 2.4.31 • linux linux kernel 2.4.32 • linux linux kernel 2.4.33 • 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 2.6.8.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.8.1.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.4 • 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 2.6.11.9 … and 73 more

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-911 Improper Update of Reference Count weakness

References