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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0771
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CVE-2007-0771

Description:
The utrace support in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) related to "MT exec + utrace_attach spin failure mode," as demonstrated by ptrace-thrash.c.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34128

ST
  1017979

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA25080

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0169.html

OSVDB
  35927

CONFIRM

BID
  23720


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