Description (CNA)
The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205618
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23064
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22497
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205618
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23064
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22497
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html