CVE-2006-3741
Publication date 10 October 2006
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
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).
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| linux-source-2.6.17 | ||