Bug 1617724 (CVE-2005-2490) - CVE-2005-2490 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-2490 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-2490
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:30 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:30:35 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:30:27 UTC
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:25:38 UTC
MITRE 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.


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