CVE-2005-3356 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3356 at MITRE

Description

The mq_open system call in Linux kernel 2.6.9, in certain situations, can decrement a counter twice ("double decrement") as a result of multiple calls to the mntput function when the dentry_open function call fails, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified attack vectors.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 142636 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:006, published Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:012, published Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:09:55 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025