CVE-2005-1913 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-1913?

CVE-2005-1913 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Sep 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a non group-leader thread executing a different program than was pending in itimer, which causes the signal to be delivered to the old group-leader task, which does not exist.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-1913?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-1913?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-1913 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-1913 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-1913 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-6rwv-cvm9-3c32.