CVE-2005-3805 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 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/bid/15722 https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/