Candidate: CVE-2009-1961 PublicDate: 2009-06-08 01:00:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1961 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-793-1 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: Priority: medium Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_linux-source-2.6.15: upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.30~rc1) dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.15-54.77) hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE intrepid_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE jaunty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE Patches_linux: upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17 upstream_linux: released (2.6.30~rc1) dapper_linux: DNE hardy_linux: released (2.6.24-24.55) intrepid_linux: released (2.6.27-14.35) jaunty_linux: released (2.6.28-13.45) devel_linux: not-affected