CVE-2006-3634 Information

Description

The (1) __futex_atomic_op and (2) futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic functions in Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc4 to 2.6.18-rc2 perform the atomic futex operation in the kernel address space instead of the user address space which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Reference

http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-3634 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bafe00cc9297ca77b66e5c83e5e65e17c0c997c8