MEDIUM
Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c in Linux kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via certain Samba activities that cause an fasync entry to be re-allocated by the fcntl_setlease function after the fasync queue has already been cleaned by the locks_delete_lock function
Published Nov 25, 2005
4.9
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.74%
Description
Memory leak in the VFS file lease handling in locks.c in Linux kernels 2.6.10 to 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via certain Samba activities that cause an fasync entry to be re-allocated by the fcntl_setlease function after the fasync queue has already been cleaned by the locks_delete_lock function.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 2.6.0
- 2.6.1
- 2.6.2
- 2.6.3
- 2.6.4
- 2.6.5
- 2.6.6
- 2.6.7
- 2.6.8
- 2.6.8.1
- 2.6.9
- 2.6.10
- 2.6.11
- 2.6.11.1
- 2.6.11.2
- 2.6.11.3
- 2.6.11.4
- 2.6.11.5
- 2.6.11.6
- 2.6.11.7
- 2.6.11.8
- 2.6.11.9
- 2.6.11.10
- 2.6.11.11
- 2.6.11.12
- 2.6.12
- 2.6.12.1
- 2.6.12.2
- 2.6.12.3
- 2.6.12.4
- 2.6.12.5
- 2.6.12.6
- 2.6.13
- 2.6.13.1
- 2.6.13.2
- 2.6.13.3
- 2.6.13.4
- 2.6.14
- 2.6.14
- 2.6.14
- 2.6.14
- 2.6.14
- 2.6.14.1
- 2.6.14.2
- 2.6.14.3
- 2.6.15
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
4.9 MEDIUM NVD
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
0.74% 0.00745
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.00745
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.74% (0.00745) | 53.09th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.74% (0.00745) | 49.77th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.12% (0.00116) | 27.92th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 11.55th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 9.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 7.62th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 3.22% (0.03220) | 84.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 3.22% (0.03220) | 82.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 3.22% (0.03220) | 65.30th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (11)
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
- http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc15ae14e97ee9d5ed740cbb0b94996076d8b37e | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113190437101622&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15745 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0070 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX | |
| http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 25, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 25, 2005
Link CVE-2005-3807
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a