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CVE-2005-1767

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1767 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel versions 2.6.x and 2.4.x, specifically affecting Novell and SUSE Linux distributions. This flaw, located in traps.c, allows a local attacker to trigger stack segment faults on an exception stack, leading to an oops and stack fault exception. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the sole impact being a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed threat.

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 2026-07-27
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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kernel-0:2.4.21-37.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1767Important

security flaw

Jun 30, 2005

References

kernel.org / git
secunia.com / advisories/17002
secunia.com / advisories/18056
secunia.com / advisories/18059
secunia.com / advisories/18977
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11101
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-921
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-922
wwwnew.mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14467
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-187-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/1878