CVE-2008-5300

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.28, 2.6.28-rc1, 2.6.28-rc2, 2.6.28-rc3, 2.6.28-rc4, 2.6.28-rc5

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2
http://osvdb.org/50272
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
http://secunia.com/advisories/33083
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854

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