CVE-2006-4342 (GCVE-0-2006-4342)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-17 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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