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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2005-0087 json

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to exec…

published 2005-02-15 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0088

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library.

Patch / fix

  • alsa-lib Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0087

  • alsa-lib RHEL 4 1.0.6-5.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:033

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0087 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 alsa-lib 1.0.6-5.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 alsa-lib 1.0.6-5.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 alsa-lib 1.0.6-5.RHEL4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 alsa-lib 1.0.6-5.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:033

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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