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.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1927-1 New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1928-1 New Linux 2.6.24 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1929-1 New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-864-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37351 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc6 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1672.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3547 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3547 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:31:10.441Z

Reserved: 2009-10-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-3547

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-11-04T15:30:00.640

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-3547

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-10-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3547 - Bugzilla

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