CVE-2005-1762 Information

Description

The ptrace call in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10 for the AMD64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a \non-canonical\ address.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/15786 http://secunia.com/advisories/17002 http://secunia.com/advisories/17073 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/18059 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-921 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.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/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13904 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1878 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10630 https://usn.ubuntu.com/143-1/