CVE-2006-2629
Status: ModifiedMedium (4)—Exploit
Severity4Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability0.65 %higher than 51% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB
Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6.15 to 2.6.17, when running on SMP platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating and exiting a large number of tasks, then accessing the /proc entry of a task that is exiting, which causes memory corruption that leads to a failure in the prune_dcache function or a BUG_ON error in include/linux/list.h.
CVSS
- Base score
- 4
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.65 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 51
- Score date
- 10/21/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · Linux Kernel 2.6.x - Proc dentry_unused Corruption Local Denial of Service (5/31/2006)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
References
Show 12 references
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20349
- http://www.osvdb.org/25847
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114860432801543&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20349
- http://www.osvdb.org/25847
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18183
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2070
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26746
Raw JSON (NVD)
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