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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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