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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T17:58:51.878Z
Reserved: 2006-05-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-2629

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-05-27T10:02:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-2629

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