{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-12-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: create_elf_tables can leave urandom in a bad state",
    "id" : "547906",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547906"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-672->CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "Use-after-free vulnerability in the fasync_helper function in fs/fcntl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4-git1 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors that include enabling O_ASYNC (aka FASYNC or FIOASYNC) on a locked file, and then closing this file." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. Shipped kernels do not include upstream commit 233e70f4 that introduced the problem.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Security Team) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2010-03-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0161",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-149.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-01-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0046",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.Z - Server Only",
    "release_date" : "2010-03-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0149",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.14.1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4141\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4141" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-4141",
  "csaw" : false
}