Release Date: | 2015-01-19 | |
Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function indrivers/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.
See more information about CVE-2015-4170 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 4.7 |
Vector String: | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Version: | 2.0 |
Attack Vector: | Local |
Attack Complexity: | Medium |
Authentication: | None |
Confidentiality Impact: | None |
Integrity Impact: | None |
Availability Impact: | Complete |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2015-2152 | 2015-11-24 |
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