Vulnerability CVE-2008-5300

Vulnerability CVE-2008-5300

Published: 2008-12-01 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Low	soft lockups/OOM after unix socket fixes	dann frazier	03.12.2008

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10	6.9/10	3.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
None	None	Complete

Affected software
Linux -> Kernel
Linux -> Linux kernel

References:

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://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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10283

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11427

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

Vulnerability CVE-2008-5300

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Low

soft lockups/OOM after unix socket fixes

CWE-399

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

4.9/10

6.9/10

3.9/10

Local

Low

No required

None

None

Complete

Affected software

References: