CVE-2005-2492

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2005-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 4.10, 5.04
Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+36)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112690609622266&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16747/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13.1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14787
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-178-1

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