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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15722 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/ ↗