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kernel: race condition

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2006-3626

Created:

July 17, 2006

Updated:

July 21, 2006

Description:

It was discovered that a race condition in the process filesystem can lead to privilege escalation.

Alerts:

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kernel: race condition

Posted Jul 17, 2006 19:13 UTC (Mon) by jmm (subscriber, #34596) [Link]

I made a typo when sending out the DSA; this should read CVE-2006-3626.

kernel: race condition

Posted Jul 17, 2006 19:19 UTC (Mon) by ris (editor, #5) [Link]

Thanks. That's now fixed.