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CVE-2005-2490

Date: September 13, 2005

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread.

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (27)

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10481

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2005-2490

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-178-1

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2490

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/16747/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112690609622266&w=2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17826

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17002

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22217

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1878

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166248

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13.1

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14785

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17073

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2005-2490

Severity Score

5.9

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2005-2490

Date: September 13, 2005

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