CVE-2005-2800 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2800 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 113224 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:068, published Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:52:27 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 16 11:10:37 2024