Resource exhaustion in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-3741
Published: October 10, 2006 / Updated: February 13, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95579
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-3741
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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).
How to mitigate CVE-2006-3741
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20361
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22279
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22292
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22382
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22945
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23370
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3937
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29384
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11250
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6