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Bug 170283

Summary: CAN-2005-3181 names_cache memory leak
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, lwang, sgrubb
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: public=20051007,impact=important
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-808 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Backported fix none

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-10-10 15:12:36 UTC 
A memory leak with names_cache could lead to an unprivileged DoS in linux
kernel 2.6 if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled.

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4346883bQBeBd26syWTKX2CVC5bDcA
Comment 1 Jason Baron 2005-10-12 16:16:17 UTC 
*** Bug 170526 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2005-10-18 13:05:25 UTC 
Created attachment 120120 [details]
Backported fix
Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-27 15:10:49 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html