security flaw

Memory leak in the seqfile 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...

CVE-2005-2800

CVE-2005-2800 is a memory leak in the Linux kernel's SCSI procfs sg(devices) interface (for Linux 2.6.13 and earlier). Exploitation arises from repeated reads of /proc/scsi/sg/devices, leading to memory consumption and potential Denial of Service. Publicly documented references describe the issue...