CVE-2005-2800

Description (CNA)

Memory leak in the seq_file implementation 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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14790
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9954
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=729d70f5dfd663b44bca68a4479c96bde7e535d6
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

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