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CVE-2005-4881

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does...

4.9 Medium

CVE-2005-4881 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.9) in Linux Kernel, published October 19, 2009. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.38%, the 32nd percentile. No source names a fixed version.

What does this mean?
Severity
4.9 MediumCVSS 2.0, NVD
Exploit chance
0.38%EPSS, 32nd percentile
Exploitation
None knownNot on CISA’s or ENISA’s lists
Fixed in
No fix listedNo source names one

Description

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Exploit likelihood

0.38%Down 1.2 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL

What each source reports

NVD Score used4.9

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Record
CVE-2005-4881
CVSS 2.0
4.9 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE ListNo score

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Record
CVE-2005-4881
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2005-4872No score

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Record
EUVD-2005-4872
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jfwc-rxqw-vvj6No score

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does...

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Record
GHSA-jfwc-rxqw-vvj6
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2005-48814.9

CVE-2005-4881 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2005-4881
CVSS 2.0
4.9 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
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aliasesEUVD
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