CVE-2005-0178: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the setsid function in Linux before 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly access portions of kernel memory, related to TTY changes, locking, and semaphores.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …
• Netkit Linux Netkit: version 0.17 only; version 0.17.17 only
• Vserver Linux-Vserver: version 1.20 only; version 1.21 only; version 1.22 only; version 1.23 only; version 1.24 only

Published 2005-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.