CVE-2005-3784

Linux Kernel - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

Description

The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root privileges.

References (21)

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17786

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17787

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17917

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/18203

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/18510

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018

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

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625

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Scores

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.0%

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (37)

linux/linux_kernel

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Timeline

Published Nov 23, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026