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FKIE_CVE-2005-3805

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-11-25 21:03 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:17
Severity
Summary
A locking problem in POSIX timer cleanup handling on exit in Linux kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.14, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) involving process CPU timers.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/17917
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/17918
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/18203
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15722
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15722
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel 2.6.10
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.1
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.2
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.3
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.4
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.5
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.6
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.7
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.8
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.9
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.10
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.11
linux linux_kernel 2.6.11.12
linux linux_kernel 2.6.12
linux linux_kernel 2.6.12.1
linux linux_kernel 2.6.12.2
linux linux_kernel 2.6.12.3
linux linux_kernel 2.6.12.4
linux linux_kernel 2.6.13
linux linux_kernel 2.6.14
linux linux_kernel 2.6.14
linux linux_kernel 2.6.14
linux linux_kernel 2.6.14
linux linux_kernel 2.6.14
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