CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-3784
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root privileges.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.0
• linux linux kernel 2.6.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.10
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.8
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.9
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.10
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.11
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.12
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17786 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17787 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17786 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17787 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439623/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15625 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/ usn.ubuntu.com