CVE-2005-3181 Information

Description

The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6 and other versions before 2.6.13.4 when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Reference

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=829841146878e082613a49581ae252c071057c23 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4346883bQBeBd26syWTKX2CVC5bDcA http://secunia.com/advisories/17114 http://secunia.com/advisories/17280 http://secunia.com/advisories/17364 http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9549 http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15076 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9467