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CVE-2006-3741

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2006-10-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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).

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References