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CVE-2006-3741

Date: October 9, 2006

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).

Severity Score

Related Resources (21)

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11250
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20361
http://secunia.com/advisories/22292
http://secunia.com/advisories/23370
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3741
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6
http://secunia.com/advisories/22279
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-3741
http://secunia.com/advisories/22945
http://secunia.com/advisories/22382
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3937
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29384
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-3741

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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