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CVE-2005-2800

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2005-09-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References