CVE-2005-3807

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by J. Bruce Fields · cdoslinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26749

Scores

EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 34.8%

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (46)

linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
... and 31 more

Timeline

Published Nov 25, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026