CVE-2009-1265

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in rose_sendmsg (sys/net/af_rose.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, and other versions before 2.6.30-rc1, might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a large length value, which causes "garbage" memory to be sent.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.24.4, 2.6.24.5, 2.6.24.6, 2.6.24.7, 2.6.25, 2.6.25.1 (+108)

References

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10423
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83e0bbcbe2145f160fbaa109b0439dae7f4a38a9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/53571
http://osvdb.org/53630
http://osvdb.org/53631
http://secunia.com/advisories/34981
http://secunia.com/advisories/35011
http://secunia.com/advisories/35121

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