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CVE-2005-3105

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3105 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel (mprotect.c) affecting Itanium IA64 Montecito processors. The flaw stems from improper cache coherency maintenance when modifying PTE protections, potentially allowing local users to crash the system or corrupt data. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (low severity) and an EPSS score indicating very low exploitability, this vulnerability requires local access and has a low impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, 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:*:itanium_ia64_montecito:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 68th 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-0:2.6.9-22.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3105Important

security flaw

Mar 28, 2005

References

cache-www.intel.com / cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf
Exploit
linux.bkbits.net / linux-2.6/cset%404248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw
secunia.com / advisories/18056
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11283
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-922
intel.com / cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/215766.htm
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html