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CVE-2005-3109

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3109 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the HFS and HFS+ modules within the Linux kernel (versions 2.6). An attacker can trigger a system crash (oops) by attempting to mount a non-HFS+ filesystem using the hfsplus module. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 62nd 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-0:2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3109Moderate

security flaw

May 1, 2005

References

secunia.com / advisories/17141
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18056
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18510
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10777
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-922
kernel.org / git/gitweb.cgi
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/15049
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-199-1