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CVE-2005-3181 (GCVE-0-2005-3181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-10-11 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:01
VLAI
Summary
The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2005-10-06 00:00
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