CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-4170

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2016-05-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function in drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13-rc4-next-20131218 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ldsem_down_read and ldsem_down_write deadlock) by establishing a new tty thread during shutdown of a previous tty thread.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.13.3) • redhat enterprise linux compute node eus 7.1 • redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus 7.1 s390x • redhat enterprise linux for power big endian eus 7.1 ppc64 • redhat enterprise linux for power little endian eus 7.1 ppc64le • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References