CVE-2009-1243
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 6, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 6, 2009
Description
net/ipv4/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.1 performs an unlocking step in certain incorrect circumstances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by reading zero bytes from the /proc/net/udp file and unspecified other files, related to the "udp seq_file infrastructure."
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29.1
- 34478third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20090401 CVE request: kernel: udp: Wrong locking code in udp seq_file infrastructuremailing-list
- 34329vdb-entry
- linux-kernel-procnetudp-dos(49595)vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=30842f2989aacfaba3ccb39829b3417be9313dbe
- http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Linux-kernel-denial-of-service-via-proc-net-udp-8586
- ADV-2009-0924vdb-entry
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