CVE-2005-3660

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 (attack range: local)

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)	3.16.72-1	vulnerable
	stretch	4.9.168-1	vulnerable
	stretch (security)	4.9.168-1+deb9u5	vulnerable
	buster	4.19.37-5	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.37-5+deb10u2	vulnerable
	bullseye	4.19.37-6	vulnerable
	sid	5.2.9-1	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

Design limitation, for rare corner cases, where this poses a problem advanced
resource management systems can be deployed