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CVE-2005-3784

CVE-2005-3784

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078http://secunia.com/advisories/17786http://secunia.com/advisories/17787http://secunia.com/advisories/17917http://secunia.com/advisories/17918http://secunia.com/advisories/18203http://secunia.com/advisories/18510http://secunia.com/advisories/19374https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739