high
7.2
CWE
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Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2009-4141: Use After Free

First published: Tue Dec 15 2009(Updated: )

Reported by Tavis Ormandy of Google Security Team. The root cause was determined to be a use-after-free of locked async file descriptors, and it is believed to have been introduced here: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/linus/233e70f4228e78eb2f80dc6650f65d3ae3dbf17c">http://git.kernel.org/linus/233e70f4228e78eb2f80dc6650f65d3ae3dbf17c</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy of Google Security Team for reporting this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.16
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.12
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.9
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.9
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.10
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13.3
Linux Linux kernel<=2.6.33
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.18
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.14
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.10
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.24-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.11
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.13
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.32
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.32.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.15
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.24-rc5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.33-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.24-rc4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.11
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.14
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.33-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.25
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.21
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.28
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.10
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.23
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.24-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.14.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.9
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.0
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.31
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.26
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.29
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.22
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.11
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.10
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.33-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.24
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.32.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.30
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.24-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.17
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.12
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.27
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.18.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.32.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.23.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.32.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.17.13
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.8.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.22.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.19
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.12
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.16.20
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.15.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.11.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.9
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.13.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.12

Remedy

http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/7744108017

Remedy

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.33-rc4-git1.bz2

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