Candidate: CVE-2005-1761 References: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ea78729b8dbfc400fe165a57b90a394a7275a54 Description: 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. Notes: jmm> This uses arch-ia64-ptrace-restore_sigcontext.dpatch, correct? dannf> 2.4 patch for ia64 from SuSE in: CVE-2005-1761-linux24.patch dannf> Unfortunately, its against an older 2.4, so this doesn't apply dannf> trivially Bugs: upstream: released (2.6.12.1) linux-2.6: N/A 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge1) [arch-x86_64-private-tss.dpatch, arch-x86_64-nmi.dpatch, arch-ia64-ptrace-getregs-putregs.dpatch, arch-ia64-ptrace-restore_sigcontext.dpatch] 2.4.27-sarge-security: released (2.4.27-10sarge2) [204_arch-ia64-ptrace-getregs-putregs.diff, 205_arch-ia64-ptrace-restore_sigcontext.diff] 2.4.19-woody-security: 2.4.18-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security: 2.4.16-woody-security: 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: