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Scientific Linux: 2009-04-16 Important Udev Security Update CVE-2009-1185

Calendar Apr 17, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Important: udev security update 
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:28:34 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: udev on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: udev security update
Issue date:	2009-04-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-1185

It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink
messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges
via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a
world-writable block device file for an existing system block device
(for example, the root file system). (CVE-2009-1185)

After installing the update, the udevd daemon will be restarted
automatically.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.src.rpm
 i386:
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson