CVE-2005-3805

A locking problem in POSIX timer cleanup handling on exit in Linux kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.14, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) involving process CPU timers.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
• http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15722
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/