CVE-2005-1768
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…
- 3.7LowCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- 20050711 [ Suresec Advisories ] - Linux kernel ia32 compatibility (ia64/x86-64) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 15980 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1014442 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 18059 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19185 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19607 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-921 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:551 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 17002 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 14205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv4.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2005-1878 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-1770 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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