FKIE_CVE-2005-3106

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-09-30 10:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:16
Severity
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as linuxthreads and vfork), might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering a core dump while waiting for a thread that has just performed an exec.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.cBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/17141Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/18056Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/18510Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.cBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/17141Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/18056Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/18510Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel 2.6.0
debian debian_linux 3.1
canonical ubuntu_linux 4.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 5.04
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