CVE-2005-3847 Information

Description

The handle_stop_signal function in signal.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11 up to other versions before 2.6.13 and 2.6.12.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by sending a SIGKILL to a real-time threaded process while it is performing a core dump.

Reference

http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112430346613450&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508422716574&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/19038 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git;a=blob;h=f6cc7e101c49f356e4c4df5cca1ff352a0f01dd5;hb=9c5fcb99af7c157be45e9d53aeb857ded5211fcd;f=2.6.12.6/nptl-signal-delivery-deadlock-fix.patch http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=dd12f48d4e8774415b528d3991ae47c28f26e1ac;hp=ade6648b3b11a5d81f6f28135193ab6d85d621db http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16856