CVE-2005-0180: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer signedness errors in the sg_scsi_ioctl function in scsi_ioctl.c for Linux 2.6.x allow local users to read or modify kernel memory via negative integers in arguments to the scsi ioctl, which bypass a maximum length check before calling the copy_from_user and copy_to_user functions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …

Published 2005-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.