CVE-2005-2800 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=729d70f5dfd663b44bca68a4479c96bde7e535d6 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 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 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14790 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9954