CVE-2005-2800 (GCVE-0-2005-2800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-09-06 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:45
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2005-05-06 00:00
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