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CVE-2005-3807

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.

POC

Reference

- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded

- http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-231-1

Github

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