CVE-2006-7051

The systimercreate 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...

CVE-2006-7051

The CVE-2006-7051 vulnerability concerns the Linux kernel 2.6.x, specifically the sys_timer_create function in posix-timers.c. Local users can create a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but not counted as part of the process’s memory, leading to memory exhaustion ...