CVE-2008-5300 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5300
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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.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-714-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33854 Secunia Advisory: SA33556 Secunia Advisory: SA33706 Secunia Advisory: SA33756 Secunia Advisory: SA32998 Secunia Advisory: SA32913 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 OSVDB 50272 MLIST http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&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://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded BID 32516

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