CVE-2005-3106

MEDIUM

Linux 2.6 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

References (11)

[Broken Link] http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.c

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/17141

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/18056

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/18510

[Mailing List] http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072

[Broken Link] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1

[Broken Link] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 23.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-667

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

linux/linux_kernel

debian/debian_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Sep 30, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026