{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2009-04-06T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: splice local denial of service",
    "id" : "503474",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503474"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux MRG 2.\nThis issue was fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux MRG 1 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1157.html.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-07-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1157",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-126.el5rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1961\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1961" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1961",
  "csaw" : false
}