CVE-2005-0003 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0003
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Description: The 64 bit ELF support in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.10, on 64-bit architectures, does not properly check for overlapping VMA (virtual memory address) allocations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted ELF or a.out file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18886 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0001/ SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html ST 1012885 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20202 Secunia Advisory: SA20163 Secunia Advisory: SA20338 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-043.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-017.html MISC http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@41a6721cce-LoPqkzKXudYby_3TUmg MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 CONFIRM http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@41c36fb6q1Z68WUzKQFjJR-40Ev3tw BID 12261

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