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CVE-2008-5300

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2008-12-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References