Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

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.

  • Published: Dec 1, 2008
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2008-5300
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.9
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28-rc4 2.6.28-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28-rc5 2.6.28-rc5.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28-rc1 2.6.28-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28-rc3 2.6.28-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28-rc2 2.6.28-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.28 2.6.28.x