CVE: CVE-2006-3741

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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).

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 1.5

Priority: P4 - Informational (Low)

EPSS

Score: 0.00045
Percentile: 0.13275

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v2 Score: 4.9

Severity:

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