Incorrect calculation in Linux kernel - CVE-2005-3356
Published: December 31, 2005 / Updated: February 13, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95599
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3356
CWE-ID: CWE-682
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform service disruption.
The mq_open system call in Linux kernel 2.6.9, in certain situations, can decrement a counter twice ('double decrement') as a result of multiple calls to the mntput function when the dentry_open function call fails, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified attack vectors.
How to mitigate CVE-2005-3356
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169130
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16283
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18788
- http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19038
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18527
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:040
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25302
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10731
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/244-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c7dce9209161eb260cdf9e9172f72c3a02379e6