cve/2006/CVE-2006-4342.md

### [CVE-2006-4342](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4342)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649

#### Github
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