CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3556
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
• redhat enterprise linux 5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 support.avaya.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/20/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55809 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6744 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9738 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 support.avaya.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/20/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55809 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6744 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9738 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html rhn.redhat.com