CVE-2009-2698

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518034

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/25/1

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067254

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1223.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1222.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00008.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3