cve/2005/CVE-2005-2490.md

### [CVE-2005-2490](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2490)
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### Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.