Published: 23/06/2006 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 356

Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Race condition in run_posix_cpu_timers in Linux kernel prior to 2.6.16.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON crash) by causing one CPU to attach a timer to a process that is exiting.

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A race condition was discovered in the do_add_counters() functions Processes which do not run with full root privileges, but have the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability can exploit this to crash the machine or read a random piece of kernel memory In Ubuntu there are no packages that are affected by this, so this can only be an issue for you if you use thi ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18615 http://secunia.com/advisories/20831 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/20991 http://secunia.com/advisories/21045 http://secunia.com/advisories/20703 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html http://secunia.com/advisories/21179 http://www.osvdb.org/26947 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2451 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27380 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=30f1e3dd8c72abda343bcf415f7d8894a02b4290 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/311-1/

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