CVE-2005-3847

The handle_stop_signal function in signal.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11 up to other versions before 2.6.13 and 2.6.12.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by sending a SIGKILL to a real-time threaded process while it is performing a core dump.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2005-11-27

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-667

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112430346613450&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508422716574&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19038
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git%3Ba=blob%3Bh=f6cc7e101c49f356e4c4df5cca1ff352a0f0…
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=dd12f48d4e8774415b528d3991ae47c…
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16856