Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3857

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-11-27 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:24:36
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.