CVE-2005-3857 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3857
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Description: The time_out_leases function in locks.c for Linux kernel before 2.6.15-rc3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel log message consumption) by causing a large number of broken leases, which is recorded to the log using the printk function.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-231-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17786 Secunia Advisory: SA18203 Secunia Advisory: SA18510 Secunia Advisory: SA18562 Secunia Advisory: SA17787 Secunia Advisory: SA19374 Secunia Advisory: SA19369 Secunia Advisory: SA19607 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113175851920568&w=2 MISC MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 BID 15627

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