NVD

CVE-2009-3547 Detail

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.

Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: NVD

N/A

NVD assessment not yet provided.

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: NVD

Base Score: 7.0 HIGH

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST: NVD

Base Score: 6.9 MEDIUM

Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink	Resource
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c	Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html	Broken Link Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184	Exploit Mailing List
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42	Mailing List Patch
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded	Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901	Broken Link Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490	Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513	Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608	Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327	Broken Link Third Party Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html	Third Party Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html	Third Party Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html	Third Party Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html	Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html	Mailing List

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-362	Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')	NIST
CWE-672	Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release	NIST
CWE-476	NULL Pointer Dereference	NIST

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Change History

9 change records found show changes

Modified Analysis by NIST 11/03/2023 1:14:08 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Added	CPE Configuration		Record truncated, showing 500 of 783 characters. View Entire Change Record OR cpe:2.3:a:redhat:mrg_realtime:1.0::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:3.0::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:4.8::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:5.4::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:3.0::::::: cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:4.0:::
Added	CWE		NIST CWE-476
Changed	Reference Type	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c No Types Assigned	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c Broken Link
Changed	Reference Type	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184 Exploit, Mailing List
Changed	Reference Type	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42 Mailing List, Patch
Changed	Reference Type	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Changed	Reference Type	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Changed	Reference Type	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513 Third Party Advisory	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608 Third Party Advisory	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327 Third Party Advisory	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/12/2023 9:20:26 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Removed	CVSS V2	Red Hat, Inc. (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Changed	Description	CVE-2009-3547 kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference	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.
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1540 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1541 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1548 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1550 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1587 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1588 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1672 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3547 [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/02/2023 10:15:14 AM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Added	CVSS V2		Red Hat, Inc. (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Changed	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.	CVE-2009-3547 kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference
Added	Reference		http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1540 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1541 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1548 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1550 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1587 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1588 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1672 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3547 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c [Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory]

Modified Analysis by NIST 8/12/2020 11:44:22 AM

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 9/18/2017 9:29:39 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Added	Reference		https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608 [No Types Assigned]
Added	Reference		https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11513 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7608 [No Types Assigned]
Removed	Reference	http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9327 [No Types Assigned]

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-3547
NVD Published Date:
11/04/2009
NVD Last Modified:
02/15/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.

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CVE-2009-3547 Detail

Description

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Weakness Enumeration

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

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Change History

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 5/13/2024 10:10:43 PM

Reanalysis by NIST 2/15/2024 4:12:00 PM

Modified Analysis by NIST 11/03/2023 1:14:08 PM

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/12/2023 9:20:26 PM

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/02/2023 10:15:14 AM

Modified Analysis by NIST 8/12/2020 11:44:22 AM

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 10/10/2018 3:43:37 PM

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 9/18/2017 9:29:39 PM

Initial CVE Analysis 11/04/2009 12:16:00 PM

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