Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2005-3181 First vendor Publication 2005-10-12
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-01-26

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3181

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-401 Failure to Release Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9467
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9467
Title: The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Description: The audit system in Linux kernel 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.13.4, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled, uses an incorrect function to free names_cache memory, which prevents the memory from being tracked by AUDITSYSCALL code and leads to a memory leak that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-3181
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 666
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1017-1 (kernel-source-2.6.8)
File : nvt/deb_1017_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
19924 Linux Kernel /fs/namei.c CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL Local DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-07-05 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2005-808.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-219.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-235.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-199-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-12-08 Name : The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch
File : suse_SA_2005_067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-28 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-808.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-10-24 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-1007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15076
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9549
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
MANDRAKE http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:235
MISC http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdi...
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404346883bQBeBd26syWTKX2CVC5bDcA
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/17114
http://secunia.com/advisories/17280
http://secunia.com/advisories/17364
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
http://secunia.com/advisories/17917
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
SUSE http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1

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