Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5300

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-01 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:49:12

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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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