CVE-2005-1761

Novell Open Enterprise Server - Improper Input Validation

Title source: rule

Description

Linux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via ptrace and the restore_sigcontext function.

References (17)

[Various Sources] http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ea78729b8dbfc400fe165a57b90a394a7275a54

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://securitytracker.com/id?1014275

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-551.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10487

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12.1

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14051

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17002

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17073

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/18056

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/19369

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1878

Scores

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.6%

Classification

CWE

CWE-20

Status draft

Affected Products (9)

novell/open_enterprise_server

novell/linux_desktop

suse/suse_linux

Timeline

Published Aug 05, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026