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Tracker / CVE-2005-0001

CVE-2005-0001

Medium 6.9

Race condition in the page fault handler (fault.c) for Linux kernel 2.2.x to 2.2.7, 2.4 to 2.4.29, and 2.6 to 2.6.10, when running on multiprocessor machines, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via concurrent threads that share the same virtual memory space and simultaneously request stack expansion.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
trustix secure_linux

Analysis

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