Description
The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:07.317Z
Reserved: 2006-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2006-4342
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Status : Modified
Published: 2006-10-17T17:07:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2006-4342
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