Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2008-5079

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.

EPSS: 0.011 (62.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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