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CVE-2005-3805

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2005-11-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

A locking problem in POSIX timer cleanup handling on exit in Linux kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.14, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) involving process CPU timers.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References