CVE-2005-1761: Novell Linux Desktop

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Novell Linux Desktop: version 9 only
• Novell Open Enterprise Server: version 9 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 1.0 only; version 8 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.2 only; version 9.3 only

Published 2005-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.