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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):linux-2.6.24 CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5300
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.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2009:1550 2009-11-04
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1550-01 2009-11-03
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0021-01 2009-02-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11618 2008-07-29
Fedora FEDORA-2008-11593 2008-12-26
CentOS CESA-2009:0014 2009-01-15
Ubuntu USN-714-1 2009-01-29
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0014-01 2009-01-14
Debian DSA-1687-1 2008-12-15
rPath rPSA-2008-0332-1 2008-12-09
Debian DSA-1681-1 2008-12-04
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0053-01 2009-02-04
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:032 2009-01-30
Ubuntu USN-715-1 2009-01-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:003 2009-01-20

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