CVE-2006-1859
First published: Fri May 12 2006(Updated: )
Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.16.15 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=commit;h=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=blobdiff;h=aa7f66091823dde953e15895dc427615701c39c7;hp=e75ac392a313f3fad823bf2e46a03f29701e3e34;hb=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618;f=fs/locks.c
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20083
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0028
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18033
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-302-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20716
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21045
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1767
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26438
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bh=aa7f66091823dde953e15895dc427615701c39c7%3Bhp=e75ac392a313f3fad823bf2e46a03f29701e3e34%3Bhb=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618%3Bf=fs/locks.c
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618
- agent/author
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/references
- agent/remedy
- agent/severity
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/type
- agent/weakness
- collector/nvd-api
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/linux
- canonical/linux linux kernel
- version/linux linux kernel/2.6.16.15