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CVE-2008-5300

Published: Dec 01, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5300
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28 (including)2.6.28 (including)
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28-rc1 (including)2.6.28-rc1 (including)
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28-rc2 (including)2.6.28-rc2 (including)
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28-rc3 (including)2.6.28-rc3 (including)
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28-rc4 (including)2.6.28-rc4 (including)
Linux_kernelLinux2.6.28-rc5 (including)2.6.28-rc5 (including)
MRG for RHEL-5RedHatkernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-101.el5rt*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatkernel-0:2.4.21-63.EL*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatkernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.13.EL*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatkernel-0:2.6.18-128.el5*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Z StreamRedHatkernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.24.el5*
LinuxUbuntuhardy*
LinuxUbuntuintrepid*
Linux-source-2.6.15Ubuntudapper*
Linux-source-2.6.22Ubuntugutsy*

References

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