Candidate: CVE-2005-1765 References: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_29_kernel.html http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-143-1 Description: syscall in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10 for the AMD64 platform, when running in 32-bit compatibility mode, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel hang) via crafted arguments. Notes: jmm> I've extracted the patch from the Ubuntu update (CVE-2005-1765.patch) dannf> This code was very different in 2.4, and we don't ship 2.4/amd64, so I'll mark 2.4 N/A Bugs: upstream: linux-2.6: 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge1) [arch-x86_64-mm-mmap.dpatch] 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.19-woody-security: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security: N/A 2.4.16-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: N/A