FKIE_CVE-2008-5300
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-12-01 17:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:59
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.28 |
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