CVE-2008-1865: Openmosix Project Openmosix

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the msx_readnode function in libmosix.c in openmosix-tools (aka userspace-tools) in openMosix might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a third-party program that calls this function with a long item argument. NOTE: the vendor does not provide any program that is capable of causing this overflow.

Affected products

• Openmosix Project Openmosix: any version

Published 2008-04-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.