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CVE-2005-1761

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1761 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel (versions 2.6 and 2.4) on IA64 architectures, impacting products like Novell and SUSE Linux distributions. A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by exploiting the ptrace and restore_sigcontext functions. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required to achieve a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:open_enterprise_server:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:novell:linux_desktop:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:1.0:*:desktop:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:8:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kernel-0:2.4.21-37.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.9-22.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1761Important

security flaw

Jun 21, 2005

References

kernel.org / git
secunia.com / advisories/17002
secunia.com / advisories/17073
secunia.com / advisories/18056
secunia.com / advisories/19369
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10487
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-922
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1018
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.12.1
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-551.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/14051
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1878