CVE-2005-1768

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-07-04
Bugzilla:
1617670: CVE-2005-1768 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-1768 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kernel) RHSA-2005:663 2005-09-28
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2005:551 2005-08-25

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