CVE-2005-0087: Alsa-Project Alsa-Lib

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library.

Affected products

• Alsa-Project Alsa-Lib: version 1.0.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only

Published 2005-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.