CVE-2009-3547 (GCVE-0-2009-3547)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-04 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
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Date Public
2009-10-21 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

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  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
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