VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-7051
CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.93%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-02-24
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
The sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.