CVE-2006-1859 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1859
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Description: Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26438 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-302-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0028 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA21179 Secunia Advisory: SA20716 Secunia Advisory: SA20083 Secunia Advisory: SA21045 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=commit;h=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=blobdiff;h=aa7f66091823dde953e15895dc427615701c39c7;hp=e75ac392a313f3fad823bf2e46a03f29701e3e34;hb=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618;f=fs/locks.c BID 18033

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