CVE-2006-7051
Publication date 24 February 2007
Last updated 17 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
The sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| linux-source-2.6.15 | ||