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CVE-2005-1041

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1041 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel, specifically within the fib_seq_start function in fib_hash.c, affecting Linux systems. A local attacker can trigger a system crash by interacting with /proc/net/route. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating it requires local access and has a low impact of only causing a system crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely recognized or exploited threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.20.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-1041Important

security flaw

Mar 19, 2005

References

marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/17918
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9487
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/13267