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CVE-2009-2849

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2009-08-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The md driver (drivers/md/md.c) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30.2 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors related to "suspend_* sysfs attributes" and the (1) suspend_lo_store or (2) suspend_hi_store functions. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when sysfs is writable by an attacker.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References