CVE-2005-2800 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2800?

CVE-2005-2800 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Sep 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2800?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2800?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-2800 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-2800 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-85w7-89c4-rr7g.