Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel on IA64 Architecture via ptrace and restore_sigcontext

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel on IA64 Architecture via ptrace and restore_sigcontext

CVE-2005-1761 · LOW Severity

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

Linux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via ptrace and the restore_sigcontext function.

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