PublicDate: 2006-10-10 04:05:00 UTC Candidate: CVE-2006-3741 References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3741 Description: The perfmonctl system call (sys_perfmonctl) in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6 before 2.6.18, when running on Itanium systems, does not properly track the reference count for file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption). Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Priority: untriaged Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Bugs: dapper_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE edgy_linux-source-2.6.17: released (2.6.17.1-12.40) feisty_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE upstream_linux-source-2.6.17: needs-triage