Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c...
Vulnerability Description
Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c in Linux kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via certain Samba activities that cause an fasync entry to be re-allocated by the fcntl_setlease function after the fasync queue has already been cleaned by the locks_delete_lock function.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
- http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745
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