CVE-2006-1859

CVE-2006-1859

CVE-2006-1859 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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."

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