CVE-2015-4170

A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause denial of service on the system by holding a reference to the ldisc lock during tty shutdown, causing a deadlock.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

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