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CVE-2009-1243

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2009-04-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

net/ipv4/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.1 performs an unlocking step in certain incorrect circumstances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by reading zero bytes from the /proc/net/udp file and unspecified other files, related to the "udp seq_file infrastructure."

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-667

References