Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2006-3741

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).

EPSS: 0.004 (34.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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