{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-11-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector",
    "id" : "473259",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473259"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "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 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1550",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-63.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0014",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.13.EL"
  }, {
    "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-2008-5300\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5300" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5300",
  "csaw" : false
}