Upstream information
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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 449739 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SA:2009:003, published Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0000
List of released packages
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