CVE-2009-4410

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-4410
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-12-24 16:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe fuse_ioctl_copy_user function in the ioctl handler in fs/fuse/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.29-rc1 through 2.6.30.y uses the wrong variable in an argument to the kunmap function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 git1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 rc2_git7 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29 rc8-kk All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.3 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.4 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.5 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.6 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.rc1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.rc2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.29.rc2-git1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc4 x86_32 All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc6 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30 rc7-git6 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.1 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.3 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.4 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.5 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.6 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.7 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.8 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.9 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.30.y All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE request - kernel: fuse_ioctl_copy_user() dos af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Fedora update for kernel - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Bug 549400 – CVE-2009-4410 kernel: fuse_ioctl_copy_user() dos af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Linux Kernel 'fuse_ioctl_copy_user()' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: kernel-2.6.30.10-105.fc11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
osvdb.org/61335 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-12-31Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. Shipped kernels do not include upstream commit 59efec7b that introduced the problem.

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