CVE-2005-0384

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in the PPP driver for the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a pppd client.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1
Suse Linux: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
Trustix Secure Linux: 2, 2.1, 2.2
Ubuntu Linux: 4.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20163
http://secunia.com/advisories/20202
http://secunia.com/advisories/20338
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.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-283.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-284.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html

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