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CVE-2005-3276

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3276 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel's sys_get_thread_area function, affecting versions 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13. A user process could potentially obtain sensitive information due to an uncleared data structure being copied to userspace. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required for a partial confidentiality impact. 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
2.6.0CPE 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:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
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
36.5%
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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kernel-0:2.4.21-40.EL
View patch
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-2005-3276Low

security flaw

Jul 27, 2005

References

linux.bkbits.net / linux-2.6/cset%4042e81864gSEM90Oun0jA8dufpM3inw
lkml.org / lkml/2005/8/3/36
secunia.com / advisories/17826
secunia.com / advisories/18056
secunia.com / advisories/18510
secunia.com / advisories/19252
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9748
usn.ubuntu.com / 219-1
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-922
kernel.org / git
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/15527