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CVE-2008-5079

Date: December 8, 2008

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 Score

6.2

Related Resources (33)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33623

Url: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122841256115780&w=2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33704

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33348

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33641

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32913

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33706

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4694

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5079

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5079

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33854

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33756

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11288

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021360

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34981

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32676

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5079

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33083

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498943/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5079

Severity Score

6.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.2
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-5079

Date: December 8, 2008

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