CVE-2005-0091: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when using the hugemem kernel, allows local users to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.0 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.