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CVE-2008-5300

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 Software


CPE Name Name Version
linux:linux_kernel linux linux kernel 2.6.28

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