CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3043
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-09-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The tty_ldisc_hangup function in drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc before 2.6.31-rc8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash, sometimes preceded by a NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges via certain pseudo-terminal I/O activity, as demonstrated by KernelTtyTest.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.31)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.0
• linux linux kernel 2.6.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.8
• linux linux kernel 2.6.8.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.9
• linux linux kernel 2.6.10
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.8
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.9
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.10
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.11
• linux linux kernel 2.6.11.12
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.13.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.15.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.16
• linux linux kernel 2.6.16.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.16.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.16.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.16.4
… and 253 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5c58ceff103d8a654f24769bb1baaf84a841b0cc git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/21 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/27 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/68 lkml.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc8 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/31/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/03/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/03/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36191 Exploit, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5c58ceff103d8a654f24769bb1baaf84a841b0cc git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/21 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/27 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/20/68 lkml.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc8 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/31/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/03/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/03/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36191 Exploit, Patch