CVE-2008-5300
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-01 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:49
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.12062)
Summary
Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service ("soft lockup" and process loss) via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AF_UNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/50272
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/32913
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/32998
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33083
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33348
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33556
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33706
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33756
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33854
cve@mitre.orghttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673
cve@mitre.orghttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943
cve@mitre.orghttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283
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