SUSE CVE-2006-1859

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 "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."...

CVE-2006-1859

CVE-2006-1859 is a memory leak in the Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16, caused by a flaw in __setlease() within fs/locks.c. This leak can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service by consuming kernel memory. Multiple connected advisories reiterate the same root cause and link it ...