CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2009-2768
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The load_flat_shared_library function in fs/binfmt_flat.c in the flat subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by executing a shared flat binary, which triggers an access of an "uninitialized cred pointer."
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-476, CWE-824
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3440625d78711bee41a84cf29c3d8c579b522666
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/22/91
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36278
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.blackfin.kernel.devel/1905
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.5