CVE-2005-3807

Summary

Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c in Linux kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via certain Samba activities that cause an fasync entry to be re-allocated by the fcntl_setlease function after the fasync queue has already been cleaned by the locks_delete_lock function.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
• http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
• http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
• http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
• http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
• http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
• http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745

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