CVE-2015-4170
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 2, 2015
Description
Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function in drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13-rc4-next-20131218 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ldsem_down_read and ldsem_down_write deadlock) by establishing a new tty thread during shutdown of a previous tty thread.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218879
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203ae
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203ae
- [oss-security] 20150526 CVE request: vulnerability in the kernel tty subsystem.mailing-list
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.13-rc4-next-20131218.xz
- RHSA-2016:1395vendor-advisory
- 74820vdb-entry
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