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CVE-2008-5300

CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 5
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
Related CVEs
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2008-12-01 17:30:00
(16 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-10-11 20:54:47
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Rc1 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc1
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Rc2 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc2
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Rc3 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc3
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Rc4 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc4
  Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Rc5 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc5