National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5029
Original release date:11/10/2008
Last revised:02/06/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The __scm_destroy function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.4, 2.6.26, and earlier makes indirect recursive calls to itself through calls to the fput function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to sending an SCM_RIGHTS message through a UNIX domain socket and closing file descriptors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 32154
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-679-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021511
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021292
External Source: BID
Name: 33079
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090101 Linux Kernel 2.6.18/2.6.24/2.6.20/2.6.22/2.6.21 denial of service exploit
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0225
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0014
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0009
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081106 CVE request: kernel: Unix sockets kernel panic
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:234
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1687
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1681
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4573
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33704
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33641
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33623
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33586
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33556
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33180
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32998
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32918
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-netdev] 20081106 UNIX sockets kernel panic
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:008
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:004
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:057
External Source: MISC
Name: http://darkircop.org/unix.c