CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0835

Published: Mar 06, 2009 | Modified: Mar 19, 2012
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The __secure_computing function in kernel/seccomp.c in the seccomp subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.28.7 and earlier on the x86_64 platform, when CONFIG_SECCOMP is enabled, does not properly handle (1) a 32-bit process making a 64-bit syscall or (2) a 64-bit process making a 32-bit syscall, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via crafted syscalls that are misinterpreted as (a) stat or (b) chmod, a related issue to CVE-2009-0342 and CVE-2009-0343.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25 (including) 2.6.25 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.1 (including) 2.6.25.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.2 (including) 2.6.25.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.3 (including) 2.6.25.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.4 (including) 2.6.25.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.5 (including) 2.6.25.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.6 (including) 2.6.25.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.7 (including) 2.6.25.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.8 (including) 2.6.25.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.9 (including) 2.6.25.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.10 (including) 2.6.25.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.11 (including) 2.6.25.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.12 (including) 2.6.25.12 (including)

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