Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux 2.6 Tracing Mechanism

CVE-2005-3107 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASK_TRACED state.

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