CVE-2009-3547
HIGH · CVSS 7.0EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.0 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3529)
- Published
- November 4, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3529 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- novell / linux desktop
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / mrg realtime
- suse / suse linux enterprise desktop
- suse / suse linux enterprise server
- vmware / esx
- vmware / vma
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Version 4 Update 4 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0035-2006 - archived
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c(Broken Link)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html(Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42(Mailing List, Patch)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37351(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38017(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38834(Broken Link)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc6(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1672.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901(Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html(Mailing List)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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