CVE-2005-1768 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1768?

CVE-2005-1768 is a low-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Jul 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the ia32 compatibility code for the execve system call in Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.31 and 2.6 before 2.6.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a concurrent thread that increments a pointer count after the nargs function has counted the pointers, but before the count is copied from user space to kernel space, which leads to a buffer overflow.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1768?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1768?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2005-1768 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1768 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3g95-jqmm-jr55.