CVE-2006-3741 Information

Description

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).

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360 http://secunia.com/advisories/22279 http://secunia.com/advisories/22292 http://secunia.com/advisories/22382 http://secunia.com/advisories/22945 http://secunia.com/advisories/23370 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20361 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3937 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29384 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11250