CVE-2005-3857 Information

Description

The time_out_leases function in locks.c for Linux kernel before 2.6.15-rc3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel log message consumption) by causing a large number of broken leases which is recorded to the log using the printk function.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060402-01-U http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113175851920568&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17786 http://secunia.com/advisories/17787 http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://secunia.com/advisories/19607 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15627 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174337 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9727 https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/