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ELSA-2009-1222 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2009-1222 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

08/14/2009

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

06/21/2018

Description

The udp_sendmsg function in the UDP implementation in (1) net/ipv4/udp.c and (2) net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving the MSG_MORE flag and a UDP socket.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-headers
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2009-2692
36038
36108
CVE - 2009-2692
CVE - 2009-2698
DSA-1865
OVAL11514
OVAL11526
OVAL11591
OVAL8557
OVAL8657
OVAL9142
RHSA-2009:1222
RHSA-2009:1223
RHSA-2009:1233
SUSE-SA:2009:046
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2009-August/001128.html

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