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 Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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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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