CVE-2006-2629 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/20349 http://www.osvdb.org/25847 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746