ID:10311 - Exploit for Race condition in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-2629

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.

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