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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2800
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2005-2800

Description: Memory leak in the seq_file implemenetation in the SCSI procfs interface (sg.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.13 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain repeated reads from the /proc/scsi/sg/devices file, which is not properly handled when the next() iterator returns NULL or an error.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17826 Secunia Advisory: SA19374 Secunia Advisory: SA17918 Secunia Advisory: SA18510 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220 MANDRAKE http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=729d70f5dfd663b44bca68a4479c96bde7e535d6 BID 14790

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