CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It affects Linux. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2009-1265
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.17%
Linux
Original NVD Description
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.