cve/2008/CVE-2008-5300.md

### [CVE-2008-5300](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5300)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4673

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.