CVE-2005-2490

no score yetEPSS 0.6%

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.

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 46% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2005-09-14
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

linux:linux_kernel

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112690609622266&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16747/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17002
http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826

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