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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3741
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CVE-2006-3741

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: SA22382
  Secunia Advisory: SA22279
  Secunia Advisory: SA22292
  Secunia Advisory: SA22945
  Secunia Advisory: SA23370
  Secunia Advisory: SA23474

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11250

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025

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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