init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2005-09-01T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T21:13:54.186Z
Reserved: 2005-02-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2005-0403
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2005-09-01T22:03:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:55:02.720
Link: CVE-2005-0403
Redhat