Denial of Service and Arbitrary Memory Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6

Denial of Service and Arbitrary Memory Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6

CVE-2005-2492 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The raw_sendmsg function in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (change hardware state) or read from arbitrary memory via crafted input.

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