CVE-2006-3741

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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).

References (18)

[Patch] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22279

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22292

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22382

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20361

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29384

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11250

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025

[Vendor Advisory] http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22945

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/23370

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/23474

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3937

Scores

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 13.5%

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

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linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

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linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

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Timeline

Published Oct 10, 2006

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026