CVE-2005-1763: Novell Linux Desktop

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Novell Linux Desktop: version 9 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 1.0 only; version 8 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2005-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.