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CVE-2005-1763

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-06-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in ptrace in the Linux Kernel for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into kernel memory.

Affected products

• Novell Linux Desktop: 9
• Suse Linux: 1.0, 8, 9.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13903
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10182
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html

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