CVE-2009-3547: Race Condition

First published: Fri Oct 23 2009(Updated: )

Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

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