Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1243

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-04-06 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:04:49
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

net/ipv4/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.1 performs an unlocking step in certain incorrect circumstances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by reading zero bytes from the /proc/net/udp file and unspecified other files, related to the "udp seq_file infrastructure."