CVE-2005-3784
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.5%
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.
References
secunia.com/advisories/17786
secunia.com/advisories/17787
secunia.com/advisories/17917
secunia.com/advisories/17918
secunia.com/advisories/18203
secunia.com/advisories/18510
secunia.com/advisories/19374
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625
www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080
usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/
Related
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.5%