CVE-2008-5300

Linux kernel 2.6.28 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

References (30)

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Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.9%

Classification

CWE
CWE-399
Status draft

Affected Products (6)

linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel

Timeline

Published Dec 01, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026