CVE-2009-3547
45Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Actepss 4.9%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDNov 4
1st PoCNov 3
VulnCheck+5941d
exploitation probability
4.9%top 9% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
5 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 5✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33321exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/10018exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33322exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9844exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40812unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466chttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.htmlhttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.htmlhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490http://secunia.com/advisories/37351http://secunia.com/advisories/38017