CVE-2005-1768

N/A
Published: July 11, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

Race condition in the ia32 compatibility code for the execve system call in Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.31 and 2.6 before 2.6.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a concurrent thread that increments a pointer count after the nargs function has counted the pointers, but before the count is copied from user space to kernel space, which leads to a buffer overflow.

References (16)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/15980
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17002
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18059
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/19185
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/19607
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014442

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

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CWE
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