CVE-2005-2490: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread.

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 2005-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.