CVE-2004-2731

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Sbus PROM driver (drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c) for the Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, 2.6.x up to 2.6.7, and possibly later versions, allow local users to execute arbitrary code by specifying (1) a small buffer size to the copyin_string function or (2) a negative buffer size to the copyin function.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.4.0, 2.4.0-test1, 2.4.0-test10, 2.4.0-test11, 2.4.0-test12, 2.4.0-test2 (+96)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0463.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11981
http://secunia.com/advisories/29058
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010617
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503
http://www.osvdb.org/7345
http://www.osvdb.org/8363
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5GP0515DFW.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10632
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0463.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11981
http://secunia.com/advisories/29058

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