National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0935
Original release date:03/18/2009
Last revised:04/01/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The inotify_read function in the Linux kernel 2.6.27 to 2.6.27.13, 2.6.28 to 2.6.28.2, and 2.6.29-rc3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a read with an invalid address to an inotify instance, which causes the device's event list mutex to be unlocked twice and prevents proper synchronization of a data structure for the inotify instance.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/15/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, or Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
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External Source: BID
Name: 33624
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20090131 [patch 03/43] inotify: clean up inotify_read and fix locking
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488935
External Source: XF
Name: linux-kernel-inotify-read-dos(49331)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090319 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090318 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090306 CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.3