Bug 1618064 (CVE-2006-1855) - CVE-2006-1855 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-1855 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-1855
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-16 12:15 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:15:41 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:15:35 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:40:27 UTC 
MITRE description:

choose_new_parent in Linux kernel before 2.6.11.12 includes certain debugging code, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by causing certain circumstances involving termination of a parent process.
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