CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3660

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and panic) by creating a large number of connected file descriptors or socketpairs and setting a large data transfer buffer, then preventing Linux from being able to finish the transfer by causing the process to become a zombie, or closing the file descriptor without closing an associated reference.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0 • linux linux kernel 2.4.1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.3 • linux linux kernel 2.4.4 • linux linux kernel 2.4.5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.6 • linux linux kernel 2.4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.8 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 • linux linux kernel 2.4.10 • linux linux kernel 2.4.11 • linux linux kernel 2.4.12 • linux linux kernel 2.4.13 • linux linux kernel 2.4.14 • linux linux kernel 2.4.15 • linux linux kernel 2.4.16 • linux linux kernel 2.4.17 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19 • linux linux kernel 2.4.20 • linux linux kernel 2.4.21 • linux linux kernel 2.4.22 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 ow2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 ow1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.25 • linux linux kernel 2.4.26 • linux linux kernel 2.4.27 • linux linux kernel 2.4.28 • linux linux kernel 2.4.29 • linux linux kernel 2.4.30 • linux linux kernel 2.4.31 • linux linux kernel 2.4.32 • linux linux kernel 2.5.0 • linux linux kernel 2.5.1 • linux linux kernel 2.5.2 • linux linux kernel 2.5.3 • linux linux kernel 2.5.4 • linux linux kernel 2.5.5 • linux linux kernel 2.5.6 • linux linux kernel 2.5.7 • linux linux kernel 2.5.8 • linux linux kernel 2.5.9 • linux linux kernel 2.5.10 • linux linux kernel 2.5.11 • linux linux kernel 2.5.12 • linux linux kernel 2.5.13 • linux linux kernel 2.5.14 • linux linux kernel 2.5.15 • linux linux kernel 2.5.16 • linux linux kernel 2.5.17 • linux linux kernel 2.5.18 • linux linux kernel 2.5.19 • linux linux kernel 2.5.20 • linux linux kernel 2.5.21 • linux linux kernel 2.5.22 • linux linux kernel 2.5.23 • linux linux kernel 2.5.24 … and 80 more

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