CVE-2005-0937

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-02-22
Bugzilla:
1617588: CVE-2005-0937 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Some futex functions in futex.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x perform get_user calls while holding the mmap_sem semaphore, which could allow local users to cause a deadlock condition in do_page_fault by triggering get_user faults while another thread is executing mmap or other functions.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0937 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2005:420 2005-06-08

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