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CVE-2005-3106

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 o…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
Version 2.6.0
DebianDebian Linux
Version 3.1
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 4.10, 5.04

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