Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 30, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2005-3106
CVE-2005-3106
Description
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: ~2.6
Patches
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References
11- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threadednvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049nvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1nvdThird Party Advisory
- linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156nvdBroken Link
- secunia.com/advisories/17141nvdBroken Link
- secunia.com/advisories/18056nvdBroken Link
- secunia.com/advisories/18510nvdBroken Link
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922nvdMailing List
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.htmlnvdBroken Link
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108nvdBroken Link
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