CVE-2005-3107

fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASK_TRACED state.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-199-1
• Linux kernel vulnerabilities
• 11 October 2005

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3107