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CVE-2005-2800

Publication date 6 September 2005

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Unknown

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-source-2.6.17 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-178-1
    • Linux kernel vulnerabilities
    • 9 September 2005

Other references