Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3043

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-09-02 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 06:14:55

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The tty_ldisc_hangup function in drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc before 2.6.31-rc8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash, sometimes preceded by a NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges via certain pseudo-terminal I/O activity, as demonstrated by KernelTtyTest.c.

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