CVE-2009-1883

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-09-15
Bugzilla:
505983: CVE-2009-1883 kernel: missing capability check in z90crypt

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The z90crypt_unlocked_ioctl function in the z90crypt driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 does not perform a capability check for the Z90QUIESCE operation, which allows local users to leverage euid 0 privileges to force a driver outage.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1883 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect kernel packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.

It was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1438.html .

This issue has been rated as having moderate security impact.

It is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, due to this product being in Production 3 of its maintenance life-cycle, where only qualified security errata of important or critical impact are addressed.

For further information about Errata Support Policy, visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2009:1438 2009-09-15

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