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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (17)

• 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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-4138](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-4138.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-4138)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:54 UTC.