CVE-2008-5300 (GCVE-0-2008-5300)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-01 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.org http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
cve@mitre.org http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
cve@mitre.org http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2
cve@mitre.org http://osvdb.org/50272
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/32913
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33083
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33348
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33706
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33756
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/33854
cve@mitre.org http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673
cve@mitre.org http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032
cve@mitre.org http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516
cve@mitre.org http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943
cve@mitre.org https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915
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cve@mitre.org https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html
cve@mitre.org https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/
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