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CVE-2005-2800 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18510	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9954	CVE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=729d70f5dfd663b44bca68a4479c96bde7e535d6	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218	CVE	Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html	CVE	Not Applicable
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14790	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18510	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9954	[email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=729d70f5dfd663b44bca68a4479c96bde7e535d6	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218	[email protected]	Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html	[email protected]	Not Applicable
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14790	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 28 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-399	Resource Management Errors	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
linux linux kernel	2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.9:2.6.20:::::: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

linux linux kernel

2.6.0

2.6.1

2.6.2

2.6.3

2.6.4

CPE

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.9:2.6.20:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 19, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 19, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 16, 2016	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Nov 9, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 8, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 6, 2005	Initial Analysis	[email protected]