CVE-2009-1265: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in rose_sendmsg (sys/net/af_rose.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, and other versions before 2.6.30-rc1, might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a large length value, which causes "garbage" memory to be sent.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.24.4 only; version 2.6.24.5 only; version 2.6.24.6 only; version 2.6.24.7 only; version 2.6.25 only; version 2.6.25.1 only; …

Published 2009-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.