SUSE CVE-2008-5300

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 AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector

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 AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...