cvelist/2006/2xxx/CVE-2006-2629.json

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                "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."
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            {
                "name": "25847",
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            {
                "name": "linux-task-race-condition-dos(26746)",
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                "name": "ADV-2006-2070",
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                "name": "18183",
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                "name": "[linux-kernel] 20060526 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash",
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                "url": "http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2"
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