CVE-2005-1762 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1762
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-143-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17002 Secunia Advisory: SA17073 Secunia Advisory: SA18059 Secunia Advisory: SA18056 Secunia Advisory: SA15786 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-921 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 BID 13904

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