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CVE-2009-3547 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (linux, linux-source-2.6.15), 12 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, upstream): released 7, DNE 5.
Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.