CVE-2006-3741
CVE-2006-3741
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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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360http://secunia.com/advisories/22279http://secunia.com/advisories/22292http://secunia.com/advisories/22382http://secunia.com/advisories/22945http://secunia.com/advisories/23370http://secunia.com/advisories/23474https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29384https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11250http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htmhttp://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182