CVE-2005-3106
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.7 · CWE-667
4.7CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072Patch
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.c
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17141
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threadedAdvisory