134998 – Kernel: DoS on SMP platforms (CVE-2006-2629)

Bug 134998 - Kernel: DoS on SMP platforms (CVE-2006-2629)

Summary: Kernel: DoS on SMP platforms (CVE-2006-2629)

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
Whiteboard:	Upstream
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Reported:	2006-05-31 01:59 UTC by Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2006-06-30 12:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-31 01:59:13 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-24 12:47:57 UTC

Greg, know anything about this one?

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-25 09:52:54 UTC

Yeah, it has not been reproducable by anyone, and has not been paid attention
to since.

You can probably just close this just fine.

Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-30 12:17:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Yeah, it has not been reproducable by anyone, and has not been paid attention
> to since.
> 
> You can probably just close this just fine.

And that I'll do :)