CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3621
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-10-22
- 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-400
Description
net/unix/af_unix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) by creating an abstract-namespace AF_UNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.31.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• fedoraproject fedora 10
• opensuse opensuse 11.0
• opensuse opensuse 11.2
• suse suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse suse linux enterprise server 10
• vmware vma 4.0
• vmware esx 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77238f2b942b38ab4e7f3aced44084493e4a8675 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/19/50 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54678/ Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37086 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529626 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6895 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9921 Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77238f2b942b38ab4e7f3aced44084493e4a8675 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/19/50 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54678/ Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37086 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529626 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6895 Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9921 Third Party Advisory
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory