CVE-2006-3741

CVE-2006-3741 concerns the perfmonctl (sys_perfmonctl) system call in Linux kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x prior to 2.6.18 on Itanium. The issue is an improper reference-count accounting for file descriptors, which can allow local users to exhaust file descriptors and cause a denial of service. The desc...