CVE-2004-2660 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-2660
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Description: Memory leak in direct-io.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain O_DIRECT (direct IO) write requests.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA21605 Secunia Advisory: SA22093 Secunia Advisory: SA22174 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0617.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-203.htm http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.10 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4182a613oVsK0-8eCWpyYFrUf8rhLA BID 19665

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