CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0178

Published: Mar 07, 2005 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.2 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Race condition in the setsid function in Linux before 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly access portions of kernel memory, related to TTY changes, locking, and semaphores.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_netkit Netkit 0.17 (including) 0.17 (including)
Linux_netkit Netkit 0.17.17 (including) 0.17.17 (including)
Linux-vserver Vserver 1.20 (including) 1.20 (including)
Linux-vserver Vserver 1.21 (including) 1.21 (including)
Linux-vserver Vserver 1.22 (including) 1.22 (including)
Linux-vserver Vserver 1.23 (including) 1.23 (including)
Linux-vserver Vserver 1.24 (including) 1.24 (including)

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