CVE-2008-5079

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.27.8; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+90)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122841256115780&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913
http://secunia.com/advisories/33083
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348
http://secunia.com/advisories/33623
http://secunia.com/advisories/33641
http://secunia.com/advisories/33704
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756

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