Bug 188604 - CVE-2006-1523 __group_complete_signal() local DoS
Summary: CVE-2006-1523 __group_complete_signal() local DoS
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-11 17:30 UTC by Marcel Holtmann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-11 21:15:20 UTC
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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
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