CVE-2009-2767

Publication date

2009-08-14 15:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The init_posix_timers function in kernel/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly gain privileges via a CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW clock_nanosleep call that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.