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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch 
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37351 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1672.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

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

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-3547
NVD Published Date:
11/04/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.