CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5300
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.28
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/50272 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 securityreason.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 marc.info
- http://osvdb.org/50272 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 securityreason.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html www.redhat.com