CVE-2005-3783

Description

The ptrace functionality (ptrace.c) in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.14.2, using CLONE_THREAD, does not use the thread group ID to check whether it is attaching to itself, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174075

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15642

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.14.2

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/linux-2.6.14.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=082d52c56f642d21b771a13221068d40915a1409

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/linux-2.6.14.y.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bh=fcfc4568b45f3f190ba320b0d5853836921cb8bc%3Bhp=019e04ec065a55d8f28157d3a1f7ba06cafd347f%3Bhb=082d52c56f642d21b771a13221068d40915a1409%3Bf=kernel/ptrace.c

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

http://secunia.com/advisories/19607

http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

http://secunia.com/advisories/19369

http://secunia.com/advisories/18203

http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

http://secunia.com/advisories/17917

http://secunia.com/advisories/17787

http://secunia.com/advisories/17761

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3