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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3106
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CVE-2005-3106

Description:
Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as linuxthreads and vfork), might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering a core dump while waiting for a thread that has just performed an exec.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18056
  Secunia Advisory: SA18510
  Secunia Advisory: SA17141

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html

MANDRIVA
  http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072

FEDORA
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922

CONFIRM
  http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c@1.156?nav=index.html|src/|src/fs|hist/fs/exec.c

BID
  15049


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