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CVE-2008-5300

Date: December 1, 2008

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (34)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5300
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5300
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348
https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5300
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332
http://osvdb.org/50272
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915
http://secunia.com/advisories/33083
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5300

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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