CVE-2005-3527

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in do_coredump in signal.c in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service by triggering a core dump in one thread while another thread has a pending SIGSTOP.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=788e05a67c343fa22f2ae1d3ca264e7f15c25eaf
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15723
http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=788e05a67c343fa22f2ae1d3ca264e7f15c25eaf
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018

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