CVE-2009-4141

CVE-2009-4141 · HIGH Severity

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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the fasync_helper function in fs/fcntl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4-git1 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors that include enabling O_ASYNC (aka FASYNC or FIOASYNC) on a locked file, and then closing this file.

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