CVE-2005-0178

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-02-15
Bugzilla:
1617483: CVE-2005-0178 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0178 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2005:092 2005-02-18

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