CVE-2008-5079 (GCVE-0-2008-5079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI
Summary
net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33641 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-00… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33623 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498943/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32676 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021360 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/33704 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2008-12-04 00:00
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