CVE-2005-0001: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the page fault handler (fault.c) for Linux kernel 2.2.x to 2.2.7, 2.4 to 2.4.29, and 2.6 to 2.6.10, when running on multiprocessor machines, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via concurrent threads that share the same virtual memory space and simultaneously request stack expansion.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.2.7 only; version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 2 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.