National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0605
Original release date:02/17/2009
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (02/19/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5, or Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
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External Source: BID
Name: 33758
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-751-1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.5
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=9be260a646bf76fa418ee519afa10196b3164681
Type: Advisory
