Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1388

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-07-05 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 05:13:25

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The ptrace_start function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 does not properly handle simultaneous execution of the do_coredump function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via vectors involving the ptrace system call and a coredumping thread.

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