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CVE-2008-5300 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/50272 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427 CVE, MITRE
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5300
NVD Published Date:
12/01/2008
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE