CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0937

1.2 LOW Published 2005-02-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Some futex functions in futex.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x perform get_user calls while holding the mmap_sem semaphore, which could allow local users to cause a deadlock condition in do_page_fault by triggering get_user faults while another thread is executing mmap or other functions.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.5.0 • linux linux kernel 2.5.1 • linux linux kernel 2.5.2 • linux linux kernel 2.5.3 • linux linux kernel 2.5.4 • linux linux kernel 2.5.5 • linux linux kernel 2.5.6 • linux linux kernel 2.5.7 • linux linux kernel 2.5.8 • linux linux kernel 2.5.9 • linux linux kernel 2.5.10 • linux linux kernel 2.5.11 • linux linux kernel 2.5.12 • linux linux kernel 2.5.13 • linux linux kernel 2.5.14 • linux linux kernel 2.5.15 • linux linux kernel 2.5.16 • linux linux kernel 2.5.17 • linux linux kernel 2.5.18 • linux linux kernel 2.5.19 • linux linux kernel 2.5.20 • linux linux kernel 2.5.21 • linux linux kernel 2.5.22 • linux linux kernel 2.5.23 • linux linux kernel 2.5.24 • linux linux kernel 2.5.25 • linux linux kernel 2.5.26 • linux linux kernel 2.5.27 • linux linux kernel 2.5.28 • linux linux kernel 2.5.29 • linux linux kernel 2.5.30 • linux linux kernel 2.5.31 • linux linux kernel 2.5.32 • linux linux kernel 2.5.33 • linux linux kernel 2.5.34 • linux linux kernel 2.5.35 • linux linux kernel 2.5.36 • linux linux kernel 2.5.37 • linux linux kernel 2.5.38 • linux linux kernel 2.5.39 • linux linux kernel 2.5.40 • linux linux kernel 2.5.41 • linux linux kernel 2.5.42 • linux linux kernel 2.5.43 • linux linux kernel 2.5.44 • linux linux kernel 2.5.45 • linux linux kernel 2.5.46 • linux linux kernel 2.5.47 • linux linux kernel 2.5.48 • linux linux kernel 2.5.49 • linux linux kernel 2.5.50 • linux linux kernel 2.5.51 • linux linux kernel 2.5.52 • linux linux kernel 2.5.53 • linux linux kernel 2.5.54 • linux linux kernel 2.5.55 • linux linux kernel 2.5.56 • linux linux kernel 2.5.57 • linux linux kernel 2.5.58 • linux linux kernel 2.5.59 … and 25 more

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