Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 17, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-4342
CVE-2006-4342
Description
The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: 3
Patches
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References
7- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htmnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984nvdThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- secunia.com/advisories/22497nvdBroken Link
- secunia.com/advisories/23064nvdBroken Link
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.htmlnvdBroken Link
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649nvdBroken Link
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