| Name | CVE-2005-3660 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie | 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 3.16.81-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 4.9.210-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.19.98-1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 5.4.19-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 5.5.13-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
Design limitation, for rare corner cases, where this poses a problem advanced
resource management systems can be deployed