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Linux Kernel perfmon Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19737
Release Date: 2006-04-20
Popularity: 10,681 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in perfmon (perfmon.c) during exit processing and may cause a crash when a task is interrupted while another process is accessing the "mm_struct" structure.

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