Linux Kernel "pipe.c" Local Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is exposed to a local privilege escalation issue due to a NULL pointer dereference condition. This issue occurs in the "pipe_read_open()", "pipe_write_open()" and "pipe_rdwr_open()" functions of the 'pipe.c' source file.

Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-3547 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184

09.45.8 - CVE: CVE-2009-3547
Platform: Linux