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Status published
Medium
CVE-2005-2490
Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-178-1
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112690609622266&w=2
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10481
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.13.1
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17002
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14785
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-663.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16747/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1878
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166248
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22217
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
linux kernel
Vulnerable Versions:
2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.11.5, 2.6.11.6, 2.6.11.7, 2.6.11.8, 2.6.11.11, 2.6.12, 2.6_test9_cvs
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 14th, 2005
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.