CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1883
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/15/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1438.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505983 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9513 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/15/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/15/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1438.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505983 Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9513 oval.cisecurity.org