CVE-2006-4814
The mincore function in the Linux kernel before 2.4.33.6 does not properly lock access to user space, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors,...
- Published
- Dec 20, 2006
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Aug 5, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:CLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 62.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
The mincore function in the Linux kernel before 2.4.33.6 does not properly lock access to user space, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a deadlock.
Sources
1A deadlock on the mmap semaphore ‘mmap sem’ in the CentOS 3.9 kernel, that is triggered by a specific interleaving of concurrent threads, one calling the mmap system call and the other calling the mincore system call.
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