CVE-2005-1768 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-1768 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.7
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 90499 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:044, published Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:26:11 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:12:36 2023