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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5300
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-5300

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46943

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-714-1

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33556
  Secunia Advisory: SA33706
  Secunia Advisory: SA33756
  Secunia Advisory: SA32998
  Secunia Advisory: SA32913
  Secunia Advisory: SA33854
  Secunia Advisory: SA33348
  Secunia Advisory: SA33083

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11427
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10283

OSVDB
  50272

MLIST
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681

CONFIRM
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded

BID
  32516


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