CVE-2006-2445

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in run_posix_cpu_timers in Linux kernel before 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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+133)

References

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115015841413687
http://secunia.com/advisories/20703
http://secunia.com/advisories/20831
http://secunia.com/advisories/20991
http://secunia.com/advisories/21045
http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=30f1e3dd8c72abda343bcf415f7d8894a02b4290
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html
http://www.osvdb.org/26947

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