CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7051

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-02-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-02-24
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 sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.18.0 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.19 • linux linux kernel 2.6.19.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.19.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.19.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.19.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.20 • linux linux kernel 2.6.20.1

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