CVE-2005-0530 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-0530 at MITRE

Description

Signedness error in the copy_from_read_buf function in n_tty.c for Linux kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.11rc1 allows local users to read kernel memory via a negative argument.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 65318 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:018, published Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:03:30 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:38 2025