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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-05-27T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:58:51.878Z

Reserved: 2006-05-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-2629

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-05-27T10:02:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-20T01:31:38.473

Link: CVE-2006-2629

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