CVE-2005-1761 Information

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.

Reference

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ea78729b8dbfc400fe165a57b90a394a7275a54 http://secunia.com/advisories/17002 http://secunia.com/advisories/17073 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014275 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12.1 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-551.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14051 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1878 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10487