CVE-2009-1961

medium

Description

The inode double locking code in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 before 2.6.30-rc3, 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.24, 2.6.29 before 2.6.29.4, and possibly other versions down to 2.6.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation and removal) via a series of splice system calls that trigger a deadlock between the generic_file_splice_write, splice_from_pipe, and ocfs2_file_splice_write functions.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1956

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35143

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1157.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/03/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/02/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/30/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/29/2

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:148

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:135

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1844

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022307

http://secunia.com/advisories/36051

http://secunia.com/advisories/35847

http://secunia.com/advisories/35656

http://secunia.com/advisories/35394

http://secunia.com/advisories/35390

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-06-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00133