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CVE-2006-7051

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2007-02-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References