CVE-2006-3741

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CVE-2006-3741

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CVE-2006-3741 at MITRE

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).

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 202269 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:079, published Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:00:38 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:17:09 2023