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Tracker / CVE-2005-0178

CVE-2005-0178

Medium 6.2

Race condition in the setsid function in Linux before 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly access portions of kernel memory, related to TTY changes, locking, and semaphores.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
netkit linux_netkit
vserver linux-vserver

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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