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CVE-2009-1883

Published: Sep 18, 2009 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.9 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1883
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9 (including) 2.6.9 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-89.0.11.EL *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu upstream *

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