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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2629
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-2629

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26746

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20349

OSVDB
  25847

MLIST
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2

BID
  18183


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