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CVE-2015-4170: Race Condition

First published: Wed May 06 2015(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel<=3.13.3
Redhat Enterprise Linux Compute Node Eus=7.1
Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus=7.1_s390x
Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian Eus=7.1_ppc64
Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus=7.1_ppc64le
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus=7.1

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