CVE-2009-1265

medium

Description

Integer overflow in rose_sendmsg (sys/net/af_rose.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, and other versions before 2.6.30-rc1, might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a large length value, which causes "garbage" memory to be sent.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1264

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34654

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/08/2

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:135

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:119

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1800

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787

http://secunia.com/advisories/35656

http://secunia.com/advisories/35394

http://secunia.com/advisories/35390

http://secunia.com/advisories/35387

http://secunia.com/advisories/35185

http://secunia.com/advisories/35121

http://secunia.com/advisories/35011

http://secunia.com/advisories/34981

http://osvdb.org/53631

http://osvdb.org/53630

http://osvdb.org/53571

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00002.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83e0bbcbe2145f160fbaa109b0439dae7f4a38a9

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10423

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-04-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02342