105937 – Kernel: Local DoS through SCSI procfs (CAN-2005-2800)

Bug 105937 - Kernel: Local DoS through SCSI procfs (CAN-2005-2800)

Summary: Kernel: Local DoS through SCSI procfs (CAN-2005-2800)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/ke...
Whiteboard:	[linux < 2.6.13]
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Reported:	2005-09-14 02:44 UTC by Thierry Carrez (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-05-03 15:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-14 02:44:26 UTC

From Ubuntu's latest :

Jan Blunck discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the procfs
interface of the SCSI driver. By repeatedly reading
/proc/scsi/sg/devices, a local attacker could eventually exhaust
kernel memory. (CAN-2005-2800)

Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-24 04:47:52 UTC

All fixed, closing.