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CVE-2006-3741

Published: 10 October 2006

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).

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
linux-source-2.6.17
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Does not exist

edgy
Released (2.6.17.1-12.40)
feisty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage