CVE-2005-3106

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.

Date published : 2005-09-30

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/[email protected]?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.c