CVE-2009-1185

udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space...

RHEL 5 : udev (RHSA-2009:0427)

Updated udev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory, providing only the...

Debian DSA-1772-1 : udev - several vulnerabilities

Sebastian Kramer discovered two vulnerabilities in udev, the /dev and hotplug management daemon. - CVE-2009-1185 udev does not check the origin of NETLINK messages, allowing local users to gain root privileges. - CVE-2009-1186 udev suffers from a buffer overflow condition in path encoding,...

Fedora 9 : udev-124-4.fc9 (2009-3712)

udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory, providing only the devices present on the system. udev replaces devfs in order to provide greater hot plug functionality. Netlink is a datagram oriented service, used to transfer information between kernel modules and...

udev: Uncheck origin of NETLINK messages

udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: udev security update

Updated udev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory, providing only the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: udev-127-5.fc10

The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: udev-124-4.fc9

The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink...

USN-758-1: udev vulnerabilities

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that udev did not correctly validate netlink message senders. A local attacker could send specially crafted messages to udev in order to gain root privileges. CVE-2009-1185 Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the path encoding routines in udev. A local...

udev Netlink Message Validation Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description The 'udev' Linux application is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to properly handle netlink messages. Local attackers may exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges, which may lead to a complete compromise of the system. Versions prior to udev 1...

Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerability USN-489-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-489-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN4891.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerability USN-489-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.17 vulnerabilities USN-486-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-486-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN4861.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.17 vulnerabilities USN-486-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-489-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200611-13 (avahi)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200611-13. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 492-1 (iproute)

The remote host is missing an update to iproute announced via advisory DSA 492-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb4921.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 492-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 415-1 (zebra)

The remote host is missing an update to zebra announced via advisory DSA 415-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SuSE 10 Security Update : avahi (ZYPP Patch Number 2216)

Avahi did not check that the received netlink messages originated from the kernel. This could be used by local attackers to inject packets into avahi which could be used to inject bad netlink messages into Avahi, confusing its routing code or worse. CVE-2006-5461 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

CVE-2003-0857

The 1 ipqread and 2 ipulogread functions in iptables allow local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : avahi vulnerability (USN-380-1)

Steve Grubb discovered that netlink messages were not being checked for their sender identity. This could lead to local users manipulating the Avahi service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerability (USN-489-1)

A flaw was discovered in dvb ULE decapsulation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause a denial of service. CVE-2006-4623 The compatsysmount function allowed local users to cause a denial of service when mounting a smbfs filesystem in compatibility mode. CVE-2006-7203...