CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1185

7.2 HIGH Published 2009-04-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-346

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• udev project udev (< 141) • suse linux enterprise debuginfo 10 • suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11 • opensuse opensuse 10.3 • opensuse opensuse 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • suse linux enterprise desktop 10 • suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • debian debian linux 4.0 • debian debian linux 5.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • fedoraproject fedora 9 • fedoraproject fedora 10 • juniper ctpview (< 7.1) • juniper ctpview 7.1 • juniper ctpview 7.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-346 Origin Validation Error weakness

References