Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4248

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-30 21:19:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to multithreaded exec, the use of a thread group leader in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, and the selection of a new thread group leader in the de_thread function in fs/exec.c.