National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-3527

Overview

Race condition in do_coredump in signal.c in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service by triggering a core dump in one thread while another thread has a pending SIGSTOP.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=788e05a67c343fa22f2ae1d3ca264e7f15c25eaf

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=788e05a67c343fa22f2ae1d3ca264e7f15c25eaf

External Source: BID

Name: 15723

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15723

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA:157459-4

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2005:068

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2005:067

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:018

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17918

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17917

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17917