ghsa-w3cc-g5gv-rc8v
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 02:40
Modified
2025-04-09 04:01
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-5300"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-12-01T17:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-w3cc-g5gv-rc8v",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T04:01:16Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T02:40:15Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201"
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283"
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      "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427"
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/33556"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516"
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}


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