CVE-2006-2629
Publication date 27 May 2006
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| linux-source-2.6.15 | ||