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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2629 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2006-2629 |
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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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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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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