CVE-2008-5300
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 1, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 1, 2008
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 32998third-party-advisory
- 20081209 rPSA-2008-0332-1 kernelmailing-list
- [linux-netdev] 20081120 soft lockups/OOM after unix socket fixesmailing-list
- 20100625 VMSA-2010-0010 ESX 3.5 third party update for Service Console kernelmailing-list
- 33706third-party-advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10283vdb-entrysignature
- RHSA-2009:0053vendor-advisory
- 33756third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-11618vendor-advisory
- 33348third-party-advisory
- 32913third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11427vdb-entrysignature
- 4673third-party-advisory
- [linux-netdev] 20081125 [PATCH] Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collectormailing-list
- RHSA-2009:0014vendor-advisory
- linux-kernel-sendmsg-dos(46943)vdb-entry
- 32516vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2009:032vendor-advisory
- 33556third-party-advisory
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
- 33083third-party-advisory
- USN-714-1vendor-advisory
- 50272vdb-entry
- RHSA-2009:1550vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201
- USN-715-1vendor-advisory
- 33854third-party-advisory
- DSA-1681vendor-advisory
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