FKIE_CVE-2009-2848
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-08-18 21:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:10
Severity
Summary
The execve function in the Linux kernel, possibly 2.6.30-rc6 and earlier, does not properly clear the current->clear_child_tid pointer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a clone system call with CLONE_CHILD_SETTID or CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID enabled, which is not properly handled during thread creation and exit.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.30 | |
| novell | linux_desktop | 9 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.0 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 10 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 9 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 10 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 11 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.04 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 3.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 5.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server | 3.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server | 5.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation | 3.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation | 5.0 | |
| vmware | esx | 4.0 | |
| vmware | vma | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 5.0 |
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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