CVE-2005-2492: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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

The raw_sendmsg function in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (change hardware state) or read from arbitrary memory via crafted input.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 4.10 only; version 5.04 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

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