CVE-2005-0750: Conectiva Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bluez_sock_create function in the Bluetooth stack for Linux kernel 2.4.6 through 2.4.30-rc1 and 2.6 through 2.6.11.5 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) socket or (2) socketpair call with a negative protocol value.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.4.6 only; version 2.4.7 only; version 2.4.8 only; version 2.4.9 only; version 2.4.10 only; version 2.4.11 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_1.0 only; version core_2.0 only; version core_3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.3 only; version 9.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 1.0 only; version 9.3 only
• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 4.1 only

Published 2005-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.