CVE-2005-0091

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when using the hugemem kernel, allows local users to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls.

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when using the hugemem kernel, allows local users to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Desktop 4.0

4.0

References

RHSA-2005:092

Vendor Advisory

12599

red-hat-patch-gain-privileges(20619)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11249

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