CVE-2015-4170

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CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
4.7
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function in drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13-rc4-next-20131218 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ldsem_down_read and ldsem_down_write deadlock) by establishing a new tty thread during shutdown of a previous tty thread.

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