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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4342
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CVE-2006-4342

Description:
The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22497
  Secunia Advisory: SA23064

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm

CERT-VN
  245984


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