CVE-2008-5300
N/A
Published: December 1, 2008 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (30)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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