CVE-2006-2629

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.15, 2.6.15.1, 2.6.15.2, 2.6.15.3, 2.6.15.4, 2.6.15.5 (+32)

References

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/20349
http://www.osvdb.org/25847
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/20349
http://www.osvdb.org/25847
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746

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