CVE-2006-3741 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3741
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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).

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29384 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23370 Secunia Advisory: SA22279 Secunia Advisory: SA22292 Secunia Advisory: SA22382 Secunia Advisory: SA22945 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182 DEBIAN http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360 BID 20361

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