CVE-2005-3805 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3805
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-231-1 SUSE http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17917 Secunia Advisory: SA17918 Secunia Advisory: SA18203 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded CONFIRM http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead BID 15722

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