CVE-2005-3356 Information

Description

The mq_open system call in Linux kernel 2.6.9 in certain situations can decrement a counter twice (\double decrement) as a result of multiple calls to the mntput function when the dentry_open function call fails which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified attack vectors.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169130 http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18527 http://secunia.com/advisories/18788 http://secunia.com/advisories/19038 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=commit;h=7c7dce9209161eb260cdf9e9172f72c3a02379e6 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:040 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16283 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25302 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10731 https://usn.ubuntu.com/244-1/