Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's time_out_leases Function

CVE-2005-3857 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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