VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-3106

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.29%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-09-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-667: Improper Locking

Primary references