CVE-2005-0736

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Integer overflow in sys_epoll_wait in eventpoll.c for Linux kernel 2.6 to 2.6.11 allows local users to overwrite kernel memory via a large number of events.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-03-09 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:29:00

Affected Software

Conectiva Linux 10.0

10.0

Linux Kernel 2.6.0

2.6.0

Linux Kernel 2.6.1

2.6.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.2

2.6.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.3

2.6.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.4

2.6.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.5

2.6.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.6

2.6.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.7

2.6.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.8

2.6.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.10

2.6.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.11

2.6.11

Red Hat Desktop 4.0

4.0

References

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@422dd06a1p5PsyFhoGAJseinjEq3ew?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d

Broken Link

20050309 overwriting low kernel memory

Patch, Vendor Advisory

SUSE-SA:2005:018

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2005:293

RHSA-2005:366

12763

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9870

USN-95-1

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