CVE-2005-3807

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.

4.9

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 0.15%

Vendor Advisory securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory ubuntulinux.org Vendor Advisory securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory trustix.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/17917	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806	vendor advisory
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e
http://secunia.com/advisories/18203	third party advisory
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded	vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2	mailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded	vendor advisory
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745	vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-3807?: CVE-2005-3807 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-3807?: To fix CVE-2005-3807, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-3807 being actively exploited in the wild?: As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2005-3807 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

This platform uses data from the NIST NVD, MITRE CVE, MITRE CWE, First.org and CISA KEV but is not endorsed or certified by these entities. CVE is a registred trademark of the MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. CWE is a registred trademark of the MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CWE content is MITRE's CWE web site.