CVE-2005-2492

Canonical Ubuntu Linux - Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

The raw_sendmsg function in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (change hardware state) or read from arbitrary memory via crafted input.

References (15)

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112690609622266&w=2

[Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/16747/

[Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17073

[Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13.1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235

[Not Applicable] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14787

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-178-1

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166830

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22218

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11031

Scores

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 21.5%

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status draft

Affected Products (45)

canonical/ubuntu_linux

redhat/enterprise_linux

linux/linux_kernel

... and 30 more

Timeline

Published Sep 14, 2005

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026