CVE-2009-4138
drivers/firewire/ohci.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-git9, when packet-per-buffer mode is used, allows local users to cause a denial…
- 4.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
drivers/firewire/ohci.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-git9, when packet-per-buffer mode is used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unknown other impact via an unspecified ioctl associated with receiving an ISO packet that contains zero in the payload-length field.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References17
- 37339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 38276 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7376 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9527 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/66747/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091215 CVE-2009-4138 kernel: firewire: ohci: handle receive packets with a data length of zero (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.32-git9.log (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0095 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0046 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-2005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c0c0cc2d9f4c523fde04bdfe41e4380dec8ee54 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38017 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-4108 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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