CVE-2005-3660

Publication date 22 December 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-source-2.6.15 6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life, was needed
linux-source-2.6.17 6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
linux-source-2.6.20 7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed