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."

Date published : 2006-05-11

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18033

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=blobdiff;h=aa7f66091823dde953e15895dc427615701c39c7;hp=e75ac392a313f3fad823bf2e46a03f29701e3e34;hb=1f0e637c94a9b041833947c79110d6c02fff8618;f=fs/locks.c