| Name | CVE-2009-1961 |
| Description | The inode double locking code in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 before 2.6.30-rc3, 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.24, 2.6.29 before 2.6.29.4, and possibly other versions down to 2.6.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation and removal) via a series of splice system calls that trigger a deadlock between the generic_file_splice_write, splice_from_pipe, and ocfs2_file_splice_write functions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1844-1 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux-2.6 | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
| linux-2.6 | source | lenny | 2.6.26-16 | |||
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | 2.6.30-1 | low | ||
| linux-2.6.24 | source | etch | 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.8etch2 | DSA-1844-1 | ||
| linux-2.6.24 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
[etch] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Affected code was introduced in 2.6.19)
fixed in lenny 5.0.2 release