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).

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204360

http://secunia.com/advisories/22279

http://secunia.com/advisories/22292

http://secunia.com/advisories/22382

http://secunia.com/advisories/22945

http://secunia.com/advisories/23370

http://secunia.com/advisories/23474

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b8444d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:182

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20361

http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2