Tracker / CVE-2015-4170
CVE-2015-4170
Medium 4.7
Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function in drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13-rc4-next-20131218 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ldsem_down_read and ldsem_down_write deadlock) by establishing a new tty thread during shutdown of a previous tty thread.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.13.3 |
|---|---|
| redhat | enterprise_linux_compute_node_eus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian_eus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server_eus |
Analysis
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