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.

Date published : 2005-11-26

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16856

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git;a=blob;h=f6cc7e101c49f356e4c4df5cca1ff352a0f01dd5;hb=9c5fcb99af7c157be45e9d53aeb857ded5211fcd;f=2.6.12.6/nptl-signal-delivery-deadlock-fix.patch