{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2006-09-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "security flaw",
    "id" : "1618157",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618157"
  },
  "details" : [ "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)." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Stephane Eranian for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2006-10-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0689",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3741\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3741" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-3741",
  "csaw" : false
}