CVE-2005-3273

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The rose_rt_ioctl function in rose_route.c for Radionet Open Source Environment (ROSE) in Linux 2.6 kernels before 2.6.12, and 2.4 before 2.4.29, does not properly verify the ndigis argument for a new route, which allows attackers to trigger array out-of-bounds errors with a large number of digipeats.

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 (+126)

References

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset%4041e2cf515TpixcVQ8q8HvQvCv9E6zA
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%40423114bcdthRtmtdS6MsZiBVvteGCg
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/23/169
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
http://secunia.com/advisories/21035
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014115
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html

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