CVE-2005-4639: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the CA-driver (dst_ca.c) for TwinHan DST Frontend/Card in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and other versions before 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by "reading more than 8 bytes into an 8 byte long array".

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.12 only; version 2.6.12.1 only; version 2.6.12.2 only; version 2.6.12.3 only; version 2.6.12.4 only; version 2.6.12.5 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.