CVE-2006-2445 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2445
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Description: Race condition in run_posix_cpu_timers in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON crash) by causing one CPU to attach a timer to a process that is exiting.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27380 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20831 Secunia Advisory: SA20991 Secunia Advisory: SA21045 Secunia Advisory: SA20703 Secunia Advisory: SA21179 OSVDB 26947 MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687 MISC http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=30f1e3dd8c72abda343bcf415f7d8894a02b4290 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded BID 18615

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