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Bug 113380

Summary: Threads DoS issue (CVE-2005-3783)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) <jaervosz>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kang, kumba
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/linux-2.6.14.y.git;a=commit;h=082d52c56f642d21b771a13221068d40915a1409
Whiteboard: [linux < 2.6.14.2]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-23 11:40:54 UTC
[PATCH] Fix ptrace self-attach rule 
  
 Before we did CLONE_THREAD, the way to check whether we were attaching 
 to ourselves was to just check "current == task", but with CLONE_THREAD 
 we should check that the thread group ID matches instead.
Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-01-02 15:38:49 UTC
Adding maintainers:

mips-sources-2.4.13: Kumba
rsbac-sources: kang
sh-sources: sh-herd
Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-04-14 15:25:13 UTC
All fixed, resolving bug.