CVE-2005-3857

Publication date

2005-11-27 21:00:00

Family

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.