CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1388
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
The ptrace_start function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 does not properly handle simultaneous execution of the do_coredump function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via vectors involving the ptrace system call and a coredumping thread.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124654277229434&w=2 Mailing List, Patch
- http://osvdb.org/55679 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36131 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1193.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35559 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=346615 Mailing List, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=346742 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504263 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8625 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8680 Broken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124654277229434&w=2 Mailing List, Patch
- http://osvdb.org/55679 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36131 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1193.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35559 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=346615 Mailing List, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=346742 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504263 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8625 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8680 Broken Link