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CVE-2005-3106

Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as...

4.7 Medium

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.29%Down 1.0 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.7

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.

Record
CVE-2005-3106
CVSS 3.1
4.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
1.2 LowAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-667
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List 4.7

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.

Record
CVE-2005-3106
CVSS 3.1
4.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-667
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2005-3106 4.7

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.

Record
EUVD-2005-3106
CVSS 3.1
4.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-fgcr-gvff-j4cq 4.7

Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as...

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.

Record
GHSA-fgcr-gvff-j4cq
CVSS 3.1
4.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-667
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2005-3106 4.7

CVE-2005-3106 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2005-3106
CVSS 3.1
4.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-source-2.6.8
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-16sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-16
2.6.8-16sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-16sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-16
2.6.8-16sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-amd64
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-16sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-14
2.6.8-16sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-hppa
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-6sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-6
2.6.8-6sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-i386
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-16sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-16
2.6.8-16sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-14sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-14
2.6.8-14sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-m68k
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-4sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-4
2.6.8-4sarge1
kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-12sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-12
2.6.8-12sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-s390
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-5sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-5
2.6.8-5sarge1
kernel-image-2.6.8-sparc
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 27 CVEs
 before 2.6.8-15sarge1, plus listed versions
2.6.8-15
2.6.8-15sarge1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 17 CVEs
 before 0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2005-3106 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.7) in Debian Linux, published September 30, 2005. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.29%, the 21st percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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