CVE-2005-0736: Conectiva Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in sys_epoll_wait in eventpoll.c for Linux kernel 2.6 to 2.6.11 allows local users to overwrite kernel memory via a large number of events.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 10.0 only
• 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; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_2.0 only; version core_3.0 only

Published 2005-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.