CVE-2009-1914

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.7%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 4

1st PoCMay 3

exploitation probability

0.7%top 51% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33043

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=192d7a4667c6d11d1a174ec4cad9a3c5d5f9043c http://osvdb.org/54908 http://secunia.com/advisories/35656 http://secunia.com/advisories/36051 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51196 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1844 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/03/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35415 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1