Bug 188604

Summary: CVE-2006-1523 __group_complete_signal() local DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Description Marcel Holtmann 2006-04-11 17:30:11 UTC
RCU signal handling made this BUG_ON() unsafe. This code runs under ->siglock,
while switch_exec_pids() takes tasklist_lock.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114476543426600&w=2