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CVE-2009-1961

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

1 month ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

The inode double locking code in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 before 2.6.30-rc3, 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.24, 2.6.29 before 2.6.29.4, and possibly other versions down to 2.6.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation and removal) via a series of splice system calls that trigger a deadlock between the generic_file_splice_write, splice_from_pipe, and ocfs2_file_splice_write functions..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
1.9/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.7/10
Exploit Score
1/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.30:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.30:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
2.6.29 2.6.29.4
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
2.6.27 2.6.27.24
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:11.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -