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CVE-2008-5300

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
01/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.28:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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