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CVE-2009-3527

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2009-10-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the Pipe (IPC) close function in FreeBSD 6.3 and 6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or gain privileges via vectors related to kqueues, which triggers a use after free, leading to a NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References