Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.27.24)[2.6.29.0,2.6.29.4)[2.6.0,2.6.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006576
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-1961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.27.24, 2.6.29.4, 2.6.30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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