Security Advisory

CVE-2009-4141

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-01-19 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 06:54:09

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the fasync_helper function in fs/fcntl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4-git1 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors that include enabling O_ASYNC (aka FASYNC or FIOASYNC) on a locked file, and then closing this file.

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