SUSE CVE-2009-3556

A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5, when NPort ID Virtualization NPIV hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the 1 vportcreate and 2 vportdelete files under /sys/class/scsihost/, which allows loc...

PT-2010-1294 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 with Linux kernel 2.6.18 Description: The issue concerns a Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel when N Port ID Virtualization NPIV hardware is used. This configuration sets...