CVE-2005-0403 Information

Description

init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty’s in multi-threaded applications which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.

Reference

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144059 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9435