CVE-2009-4005

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The collect_rx_frame function in drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted HDLC packet that arrives over ISDN and triggers a buffer under-read.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.32; 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+328)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=286e633ef0ff5bb63c07b4516665da8004966fec
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37720
http://secunia.com/advisories/37909
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017
http://secunia.com/advisories/38276
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc7

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