CVE-2009-3621
medium
VMware CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 78% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: October 22, 2009 (6048 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
net/unix/af_unix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) by creating an abstract-namespace AF_UNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket.
CWE
CWE-400Affected Products
linux linux kernelcanonical ubuntu linuxfedoraproject fedoraopensuse opensusesuse suse linux enterprise desktopsuse suse linux enterprise servervmware vmavmware esx