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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | linux-2.6.24 |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-5300
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| Created: | December 5, 2008 |
Updated: | November 4, 2009 |
| Description: |
The kernel has a denial of service vulnerability. From the
national vulnerability database entry:
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. |
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