CVE-2005-2553

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-01-06
Bugzilla:
1617733: CVE-2005-2553 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The find_target function in ptrace32.c in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.29 does not properly handle a NULL return value from another function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash/oops) by running a 32-bit ltrace program with the -i option on a 64-bit executable program.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2553 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

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