CVE-2005-3356 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3356 at MITRE

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.

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: 142636 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:006, published Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:012, published Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:09:55 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:14:08 2023