Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.4.x

CVE-2005-2553 · LOW Severity

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

The find_target function in ptrace32.c in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.29 does not properly handle a NULL return value from another function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash/oops) by running a 32-bit ltrace program with the -i option on a 64-bit executable program.

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