ubuntu · CVE-2005-1763

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-1763 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (linux-source-2.6.17), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): DNE 2, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

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