Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-2629 - Local Denial of Service vulnerability in Linux Kernel Proc dentry_unused Corruption

047910
CVSS 4.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
high complexity
linux
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2006-05-27
Updated: 2017-07-20

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
38

Exploit-Db

descriptionLinux Kernel 2.6.x Proc dentry_unused Corruption Local Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-2629. Dos exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:27925
last seen2016-02-03
modified2006-05-31
published2006-05-31
reporterTony Griffiths
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/27925/
titleLinux Kernel 2.6.x - Proc dentry_unused Corruption Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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