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CVE-2005-0384

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0384 describes an unknown vulnerability in the PPP driver of the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1, impacting distributions like Red Hat, SUSE, Trustix, and Ubuntu. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by causing a kernel crash through a pppd client. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity issue, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, though it only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:advanced_server:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1:*:workstation:*:*:*:*:*
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0397 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kernel-0:2.4.21-27.0.4.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0384Important

security flaw

Mar 15, 2005

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/20163
secunia.com / advisories/20202
secunia.com / advisories/20338
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9562
usn.ubuntu.com / 95-1
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1067
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1069
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1070
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1082
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-283.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-284.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12810
trustix.org / errata/2005/0009
Vendor Advisory