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Memory leak in the seq_file implementation in the SCSI...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 3, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Memory leak in the seq_file implementation in the SCSI procfs interface (sg.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.13 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain repeated reads from the /proc/scsi/sg/devices file, which is not properly handled when the next() iterator returns NULL or an error.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 6, 2005
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Apr 3, 2025

Severity

Low

EPSS score

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(37th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2005-2800

GHSA ID

GHSA-85w7-89c4-rr7g

Source code

No known source code

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