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CVE-2005-0087

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library.

Affected products

• alsa-project alsa-lib: 1.0.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0

References

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-033.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10355
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-033.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10355

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