CVE-2006-2629
Linux Kernel 2.6.15-2.6.17 - Denial of Service via Race Condition in Task Exit Handling
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-2629. PoCs published by Tony Griffiths.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel (CVE-2006-2629) affecting versions 2.6.15 through 2.6.17-rc5 on SMP systems. The flaw in the 'proc' filesystem allows local users to trigger a kernel panic, but no actual exploit code is included.
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.
Exploits (1)
The provided text describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel (CVE-2006-2629) affecting versions 2.6.15 through 2.6.17-rc5 on SMP systems. The flaw in the 'proc' filesystem allows local users to trigger a kernel panic, but no actual exploit code is included.