SUSE CVE-2009-4895

Race condition in the ttyfasync function in drivers/char/ttyio.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to the putttyqueue and fsetown...

kernel: locking inconsistency in drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to a read-after-free

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to read numerical value from memory after free...

The vulnerability in the components drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c and drivers/tty/tty_io.c of the Linux operating system allows an attacker to disclose protected information.

The vulnerability in the components drivers/tty/ttyjobctrl.c and drivers/tty/ttyio.c of the Linux operating system is related to the use of memory after it has been freed. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information that is protected by security measures...