CVE-2008-5300 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=473259 http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2 http://osvdb.org/50272 http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46943 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10283 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11427 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html