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Tracker / CVE-2005-3181

CVE-2005-3181

Low 2.1

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).

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.0 → 2.6.13.3
mandriva linux

Analysis

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