CVE-2006-2445 Information

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.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687 http://secunia.com/advisories/20703 http://secunia.com/advisories/20831 http://secunia.com/advisories/20991 http://secunia.com/advisories/21045 http://secunia.com/advisories/21179 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=30f1e3dd8c72abda343bcf415f7d8894a02b4290 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html http://www.osvdb.org/26947 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18615 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2451 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27380