Description
A locking problem in POSIX timer cleanup handling on exit in Linux kernel 2.6.10 to 2.6.14, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) involving process CPU timers.
References
- 17917 third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2005:067 vendor-advisory
- 18203 third-party-advisory
- 15722 vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2005:068 vendor-advisory
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25f407f0b668f5e4ebd5d13e1fb4306ba6427ead
- FLSA:157459-4 vendor-advisory
- MDKSA-2006:018 vendor-advisory
- 17918 third-party-advisory
- USN-231-1 vendor-advisory