Tracker / CVE-2009-4141
CVE-2009-4141
High 7.2
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.33 |
Analysis
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