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CVE-2015-4170

Disclosure Date: May 02, 2016
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Description

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.

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General Information

Vendors

  • linux,
  • redhat

Products

  • enterprise linux compute node eus 7.1,
  • enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus 7.1 s390x,
  • enterprise linux for power big endian eus 7.1 ppc64,
  • enterprise linux for power little endian eus 7.1 ppc64le,
  • enterprise linux server eus 7.1,
  • linux kernel
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