#VU95468 Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2005-3807

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#VU95468 Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2005-3807

Published: November 25, 2005 / Updated: August 7, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU95468
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3807
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c in Linux kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via certain Samba activities that cause an fasync entry to be re-allocated by the fcntl_setlease function after the fasync queue has already been cleaned by the locks_delete_lock function.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's repository.

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