Race condition vulnerability in ia32 compatibility code for execve system call in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 allows for denial of service and potential arbitrary code execution
CVE-2005-1768 · LOW Severity
AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
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