CVE-2009-3527

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Published Oct 6, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

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 Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.4:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-3509	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.554% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/58544
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:13.pipe.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506449
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36375
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022982

History

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Subscriptions

Freebsd Freebsd

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Sources

CVE record Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 4:20 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Oct 6, 2009, 10:00 PM
Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 4:20 AM
Reserved: Oct 2, 2009, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 11:11 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Oct 6, 2009, 10:30 PM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 11:11 PM

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