| CVE-2006-2629 | Date: (C)2006-05-27 (M)2023-12-22 |
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.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 4.0 |
| Exploit Score: 1.9 |
| Impact Score: 6.9 |
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| CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Access Vector: LOCAL |
| Access Complexity: HIGH |
| Authentication: NONE |
| Confidentiality: NONE |
| Integrity: NONE |
| Availability: COMPLETE |
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