Candidate: CVE-2005-1913 References: URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1913 Final-Decision: Interim-Decision: Modified: Proposed: Assigned: 20050608 Category: SF CONFIRM:http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12.1 UBUNTU:USN-178-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-178-1 BID:14054 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14054 SECUNIA:15786 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/15786/ XF:kernel-subthread-dos(21138) URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21138 Description: The Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a non group-leader thread executing a different program than was pending in itimer, which causes the signal to be delivered to the old group-leader task, which does not exist. Notes: upstream: released (2.6.12.1) 2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.27-sid/sarge: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A linux-2.6: released (2.6.12-1) [linux-2.6.12.1.patch] 2.4.19-woody-security: 2.4.18-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security: 2.4.16-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: