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CVE-2005-2800

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2800 is a memory leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SCSI procfs interface (sg.c) affecting versions 2.6.13 and earlier. Local users can trigger a denial of service by repeatedly reading from the /proc/scsi/sg/devices file, leading to memory exhaustion. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial denial of service. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a denial of service, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26248 · Sep 9, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0083 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-2800Moderate

security flaw

Aug 27, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/17826
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17918
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18510
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19374
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9954
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1017
Third Party Advisory
kernel.org / git
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
Not Applicable
securityfocus.com / archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/14790
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry