Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2008-5300
Published: December 1, 2008 / Updated: October 11, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95734
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-5300
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2008-5300
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- 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/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