Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2005-3784
Published: November 23, 2005 / Updated: October 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95241
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3784
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2005-3784
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17786
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17787
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/