CVE-2008-5079: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.27.8; version 2.2.27 only; version 2.4.36 only; version 2.4.36.1 only; version 2.4.36.2 only; version 2.4.36.3 only; …

Published 2008-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.