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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 Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 08.04 linux 2.6.24-23.48
ubuntu 08.10 linux 2.6.27-11.27
ubuntu upstream linux any
ubuntu upstream linux-source-2.6.15 any
ubuntu 07.10 linux-source-2.6.22 2.6.22-16.61
ubuntu upstream linux-source-2.6.22 any

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