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CVE-2008-5300

CVE-2008-5300

EPSS 0.4%
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 products
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References
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2http://osvdb.org/50272https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201http://secunia.com/advisories/32913http://secunia.com/advisories/32998http://secunia.com/advisories/33083http://secunia.com/advisories/33348http://secunia.com/advisories/33556http://secunia.com/advisories/33706http://secunia.com/advisories/33756