CVE-2009-2767

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 NVDAug 14

1st PoCAug 6

exploitation probability

0.7%top 49% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The init_posix_timers function in kernel/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly gain privileges via a CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW clock_nanosleep call that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33148

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=70d715fd0597f18528f389b5ac59102263067744 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/40 http://secunia.com/advisories/36200 http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52317 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/06/2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2197