The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-10-17T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:07.317Z

Reserved: 2006-08-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4342

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-17T17:07:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:15:43.353

Link: CVE-2006-4342

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-10-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-4342 - Bugzilla