Memory Leak in VFS File Lease Handling in Linux Kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15

CVE-2005-3807 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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