{ "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" : "[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" : "18183", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183" }, { "name" : "ADV-2006-2070", "refsource" : "VUPEN", "url" : "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070" }, { "name" : "25847", "refsource" : "OSVDB", "url" : "http://www.osvdb.org/25847" }, { "name" : "20349", "refsource" : "SECUNIA", "url" : "http://secunia.com/advisories/20349" }, { "name" : "linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)", "refsource" : "XF", "url" : "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746" } ] } }