4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
37.3%
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).
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 6.10 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.17 | < 2.6.17.1-12.40 | UNKNOWN |