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Topic :

soft lockups/OOM after unix socket fixes

SecurityAlert : 4673

CVE : CVE-2008-5300

CWE : CWE-399

SecurityRisk : Low Security Risk Low

(About)

Remote Exploit : No

Local Exploit : Yes

Victim interaction required : No

Exploit Available : Yes

Credit : dann frazier

Published : 03.12.2008

Affected Software :

solaris_libfont
solaris_libxfont
xserver:1.4 and previous versions

Advisory Content :

hey,
I'm noticing that if I run the unix.c program from <A NAME="-1"></A>[1] in
a tight
loop on 2.6.28-rc5, I get frequent soft lockups. Eventually, the OOM
killer kicks in and starts taking out other processes.

I've posted a console log here:
http://free.linux.hp.com/~dannf/unix-soft-lockups.log

<A NAME="1"></A>[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122593044330973&w=2

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References :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470201

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122765505415944&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122721862313564&w=2

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