Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0001

RCE

Title: Linux kernel page fault handler race condition privilege escalation

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0001.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0001: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000930 http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/030826.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110554694522719&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110581146702951&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/13822 http://secunia.com/advisories/20163 http://secunia.com/advisories/20202 http://secunia.com/advisories/20338 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012862 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-016.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-017.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-043.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-092.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12244 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0001/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18849 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10322 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000930 http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/030826.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110554694522719&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110581146702951&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/13822 http://secunia.com/advisories/20163 http://secunia.com/advisories/20202 http://secunia.com/advisories/20338 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012862 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-016.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-017.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-043.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-092.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12244 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0001/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18849 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10322

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0001 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.