CVE-2005-3857

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Debian GNU/Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue affects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information in Debian GNU/Linux. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities can be done remotely. The time out leases function in locks.c for Linux kernel before 2.6.15-rc3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel log message consumption) by causing a large number of broken leases.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.