First published: Wed Nov 23 2005(Updated: )
The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root privileges.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.0 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.10 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.6 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.7 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.8 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.9 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.10 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.11 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.11.12 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.12.6 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13.2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13.3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13.4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.13.5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.1 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.2 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.3 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.4 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.5 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.6 | |
Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.14.7 |
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