CVE-2005-3106

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9108

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/18510

http://secunia.com/advisories/18056

http://secunia.com/advisories/17141

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/fs/exec.c%401.156?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/fs%7Chist/fs/exec.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-09-30

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00078