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CVE-2005-3106

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2005-09-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-667, CWE-667

References