CVE detail
CVE-2005-3660 — CVE-2005-3660
Published 2005-12-22 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0040
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
33.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References