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CVE-2009-3043

Published: Sep 2, 2009

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5c58ceff103d8a654f24769bb1baaf84a841b0cc

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[linux-kernel] 20090819 v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

mailing-list

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[oss-security] 20090903 Re: CVE request: kernel: tty: make sure to flush any pending work when halting the ldisc

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc8

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[oss-security] 20090904 Re: CVE request: kernel: tty: make sure to flush any pending work when halting the ldisc

mailing-list

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[linux-kernel] 20090820 Re: v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20090831 CVE request: kernel: tty: make sure to flush any pending work when halting the ldisc

mailing-list

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[linux-kernel] 20090819 Re: v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

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