Vulnerability CVE-2009-3547

Vulnerability CVE-2009-3547

Published: 2009-11-04 Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:

Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
High	linux kernel 2.6.25.15 fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference	Eugene Teo eugen...	06.11.2009

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10	10/10	3.4/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
Linux -> Kernel
Linux -> Linux kernel

References:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc6

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1672.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html

Vulnerability CVE-2009-3547

Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

High

linux kernel 2.6.25.15 fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

6.9/10

10/10

3.4/10

Local

Medium

No required

Complete

Complete

Complete

Affected software

References: