cve/2009/CVE-2009-4895.md

CVE-2009-4895

Description

Race condition in the tty_fasync function in drivers/char/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to the put_tty_queue and __f_setown functions. NOTE: the vulnerability was addressed in a different way in 2.6.32.9.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1

Github

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