CVE-2005-3106 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c@1.156?nav=index.html|src/|src/fs|hist/fs/exec.c http://secunia.com/advisories/17141 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9108