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CWE-833

Deadlock

Base
Incomplete

Description

The product contains multiple threads or executable segments that are waiting for each other to release a necessary lock, resulting in deadlock.

Common Consequences

Scope

Availability

Impact

DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Other), DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

CVE-1999-1476

A bug in some Intel Pentium processors allow DoS (hang) via an invalid "CMPXCHG8B" instruction, causing a deadlock

CVE-2009-2857

OS deadlock

CVE-2009-1961

OS deadlock involving 3 separate functions

CVE-2009-2699

deadlock in library

CVE-2009-4272

deadlock triggered by packets that force collisions in a routing table

CVE-2002-1850

read/write deadlock between web server and script

CVE-2004-0174

web server deadlock involving multiple listening connections

CVE-2009-1388

multiple simultaneous calls to the same function trigger deadlock.

CVE-2006-5158

chain: other weakness leads to NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) or deadlock (CWE-833).

CVE-2006-4342

deadlock when an operation is performed on a resource while it is being removed.

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Applicable Platforms

Not Language-Specific

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