{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-12-05T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Linux Kernel 'atm module' Local Denial of Service",
    "id" : "473696",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473696"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-02-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0053",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-101.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0225",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Z Stream",
    "release_date" : "2009-02-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0021",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.24.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5079\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5079" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5079",
  "csaw" : false
}