CVE-2005-3784 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3784 at MITRE

Description

The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root privileges.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 133971 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:067, published Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2005:068, published Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:26:03 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:14:30 2023