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Tracker / CVE-2009-3621

CVE-2009-3621

Medium 5.5

net/unix/af_unix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) by creating an abstract-namespace AF_UNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.31.4
opensuse opensuse
suse suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server
vmware esx
vmware vma

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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