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CVE-2008-5300

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/1/2008

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/50272(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32913(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32998(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33083(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33348(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33556(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33706(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33756(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33854(cve@mitre.org)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673(cve@mitre.org)

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943(cve@mitre.org)

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427(cve@mitre.org)

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://osvdb.org/50272(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32913(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32998(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33083(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33348(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33556(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33706(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33756(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33854(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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