CVE-2005-3106 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2005-3106?

CVE-2005-3106 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Sep 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as linuxthreads and vfork), might allow local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering a core dump while waiting for a thread that has just performed an exec.

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3106?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3106?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2005-3106 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3106 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fgcr-gvff-j4cq.