CVE-2009-4138

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-12-16

Description

drivers/firewire/ohci.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-git9, when packet-per-buffer mode is used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unknown other impact via an unspecified ioctl associated with receiving an ISO packet that contains zero in the payload-length field.

See more information about CVE-2009-4138 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.7	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20

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