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.
Published: 2008-12-01
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1681-1 New Linux 2.6.24 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1687-1 New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-5277 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-714-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-715-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
References
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http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/50272 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5300 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5300 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Mrg Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:49:12.425Z

Reserved: 2008-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-5300

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-01T17:30:00.203

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-5300

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5300 - Bugzilla

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