CVE-2005-3784 Information

Description

The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes processes with ptrace attached which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root privileges.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17786 http://secunia.com/advisories/17787 http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9080 https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/