CVE-2009-1883

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 15 years ago

2009-09-18 10:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:34:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.9

2.6.9

References

SUSE-SA:2010:013

36759

Vendor Advisory

37105

[oss-security] 20090915 CVE-2009-1883 kernel: missing capability check in z90crypt

[oss-security] 20090915 Re: CVE-2009-1883 kernel: missing capability check in z90crypt

RHSA-2009:1438

Vendor Advisory

USN-852-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505983

Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9513

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