CVE-2005-2800

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2800
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-09-06 17:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMemory 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.10 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.11 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.12 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.13 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.3 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.4 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.5 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.6 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.7 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.8 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.9 2.6.20 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Linux Kernel SCSI ProcFS Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1017-1 kernel-source-2.6.8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for kernel af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kernel.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for kernel af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for kernel af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Not Applicable
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE www.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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