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CVE-2005-2490

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 sendms…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
Versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5

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