VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-3741

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-10-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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).

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