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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-3857 Detail

Current Description

The time_out_leases function in locks.c for Linux kernel before 2.6.15-rc3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel log message consumption) by causing a large number of broken leases, which is recorded to the log using the printk function.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060402-01-U CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113175851920568&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/17786 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17787 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19607 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 CVE, MITRE
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed0175a462c4c30f6df6fac1cccac058f997739 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15627 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2649 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174337 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9727 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/ CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-3857
NVD Published Date:
11/27/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE