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CVE-2005-2802

Published: 06/09/2005 Updated: 07/11/2023

Vulnerability Summary

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2005-2872, CVE-2005-2873. Reason: this candidate's description originally combined two separate issues. Notes: All CVE users should consult CVE-2005-2872 and CVE-2005-2873 to determine the appropriate identifier for the issue

Vendor Advisories

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling When a non group-leader thread called exec() to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more This caused a kernel panic This vulnerability only affects Ubuntu 50 ...