CVE-2006-2629 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2629?

CVE-2006-2629 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 May 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2629?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2629?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-2629 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-2629 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-2629 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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