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.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html ↗
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.c ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17141 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded ↗