gsd-2008-5300
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
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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CVE-2008-5300


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-11T20:54Z",
      "publishedDate": "2008-12-01T17:30Z"
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