CVE-2006-2629: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6.15 to 2.6.17, when running on SMP platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating and exiting a large number of tasks, then accessing the /proc entry of a task that is exiting, which causes memory corruption that leads to a failure in the prune_dcache function or a BUG_ON error in include/linux/list.h.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.15 only; version 2.6.15.1 only; version 2.6.15.2 only; version 2.6.15.3 only; version 2.6.15.4 only; version 2.6.15.5 only; …

Published 2006-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.