VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5300

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-12-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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