Tony Griffiths

**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions** Linux kernel versions 2.6.15 through 2.6.17 **Description** A race condition issue exists that allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating and exiting a large number of tasks and then accessing the /proc entry of a task that is exiting. This leads to memory corruption, resulting in a failure in the prune dcache function or a BUG ON error in include/linux/list.h. **Recommendations** For Linux kernel versions 2.6.15 through 2.6.17, consider applying a patch to fix the race condition issue, or as a temporary workaround, restrict the creation of tasks to minimize the risk of exploitation.