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CVE-2008-5079

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2008-12-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References