CVE-2009-3621

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.

Date published : 2009-10-22

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=77238f2b942b38ab4e7f3aced44084493e4a8675

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54678/