{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2006-2629", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "25847", "refsource": "OSVDB", "url": "http://www.osvdb.org/25847" }, { "name": "linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746" }, { "name": "ADV-2006-2070", "refsource": "VUPEN", "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070" }, { "name": "18183", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183" }, { "name": "[linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2" }, { "name": "20349", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/20349" } ] } }