CVE-2008-5300

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.

🔗 References (60)

• cve@mitrehttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
• cve@mitrehttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
• cve@mitrehttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2
• cve@mitrehttp://osvdb.org/50272
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/32913
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/32998
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33083
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33348
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33556
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33706
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33756
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/33854
• cve@mitrehttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673
• cve@mitrehttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
• cve@mitrehttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681