SUSE CVE-2005-3107

fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local users to cause a denial of service deadlock by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASKTRACED state...

kernel hang via userspace PTRACE+waitid

The waittaskstopped function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.8 checks a TASKTRACED bit instead of an exitstate value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service machine crash via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information...

security flaw

fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local users to cause a denial of service deadlock by forcing a core dump when the traced thread is in the TASKTRACED state...