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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3356
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2005-3356

Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25302 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-244-1 SUSE http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18527 Secunia Advisory: SA18788 Secunia Advisory: SA19038 Secunia Advisory: SA18510 Secunia Advisory: SA19374 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:040 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 CONFIRM http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169130 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c7dce9209161eb260cdf9e9172f72c3a02379e6 BID 16283

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