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Bug 1618064 - (CVE-2006-1855) CVE-2006-1855 security flaw
CVE-2006-1855 security flaw
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 08:15 EDT by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2018-08-16 12:40 EDT (History)
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 08:15:35 EDT
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 12:40:27 EDT
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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