VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2005-2490
CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-09-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.