cve/2005/CVE-2005-3784.md

CVE-2005-3784

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174078
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9080

Github

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