Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2005-2800

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 caus

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
1 on Exploit-DB

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-26248

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 15

securityfocus.com

mandriva.com

redhat.com

oval.cisecurity.org

secunia.com

debian.org

kernel.org

Exploit-DB