CVE-2006-7051: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.18.0 only; version 2.6.18.1 only; version 2.6.18.2 only; version 2.6.18.3 only; version 2.6.18.4 only; version 2.6.18.5 only; …

Published 2007-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.