CVE-2005-3107 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3107
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Description: fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASK_TRACED state.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18056 Secunia Advisory: SA17141 Secunia Advisory: SA21136 Secunia Advisory: SA21983 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0437.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-420.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-180.htm http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c@1.155?nav=index.html\|src/\|src/fs\|hist/fs/exec.c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/broken-out/fix-coredump_wait-deadlock-with-ptracer-tracee-on-shared-mm.patch BID 15049

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