Improper Locking
CVE-2005-3106
Summary
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.
- HIGH
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-667 - Improper Locking
The software does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published