cve/2010/CVE-2010-4248.md

CVE-2010-4248

Description

Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to multithreaded exec, the use of a thread group leader in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, and the selection of a new thread group leader in the de_thread function in fs/exec.c.

POC

Reference

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Github

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