CVE-2008-5300

2008-12-0100:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.3%

JSON

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu8.04noarchlinux< 2.6.24-23.48UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.10noarchlinux< 2.6.27-11.27UNKNOWN
ubuntu6.06noarchlinux-source-2.6.15< 2.6.15-53.75UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlinux-source-2.6.22< 2.6.22-16.61UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	8.04	noarch	linux	< 2.6.24-23.48	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.10	noarch	linux	< 2.6.27-11.27	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	6.06	noarch	linux-source-2.6.15	< 2.6.15-53.75	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.10	noarch	linux-source-2.6.22	< 2.6.22-16.61	UNKNOWN