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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1859 CVE-2006-1860
Created:May 19, 2006 Updated:May 24, 2006
Description: Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialized return value," aka "slab leak."

lease_init in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (fcntl_setlease lockup) via actions that cause lease_init to free a lock that might not have been allocated on the stack.

Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2006-0079-1 2006-05-23
Fedora FEDORA-2006-573 2006-05-21
Fedora FEDORA-2006-572 2006-05-21
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0028 2006-05-19

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