CVE-2005-3631: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

udev does not properly set permissions on certain files in /dev/input, which allows local users to obtain sensitive data that is entered at the console, such as user passwords.

Affected products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.0 only

Published 2005-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.