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CVE-2009-4138 Detail

Description

drivers/firewire/ohci.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-git9, when packet-per-buffer mode is used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unknown other impact via an unspecified ioctl associated with receiving an ISO packet that contains zero in the payload-length field.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/21/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2009-4138 The Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 have a different (and older) implementation of the driver for OHCI 1394 controllers, which is not affected by this issue. It was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html A future kernel update for Red Hat Enterprise MRG will address this flaw.

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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=8c0c0cc2d9f4c523fde04bdfe41e4380dec8ee54 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/66747/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/38276 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.32-git9.log CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/15/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37339 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547236 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7376 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9527 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-4138
NVD Published Date:
12/16/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.