Candidate: CVE-2005-3106 References: URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3106 Final-Decision: Interim-Decision: Modified: Proposed: Assigned: 20050930 Category: SF CONFIRM:http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c@1.156?nav=index.html|src/|src/fs|hist/fs/exec.c 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. . Extra information from Moritz Muehlenhof: CVE-2005-3106: DoS through race condition in processes that share a memory mapping through CLONE_VM http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c@1.156?nav=index.html|src/|src/fs|hist/fs/exec.c upstream: released (2.6.11) 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge1) [fs-exec-ptrace-core-exec-race.dpatch] 2.4.27-sid/sarge: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A linux-2.6: N/A 2.4.19-woody-security: 2.4.18-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security: 2.4.16-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: