National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0322
Original release date:01/28/2009
Last revised:06/12/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.13, and 2.6.28.x before 2.6.28.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a read system call that specifies zero bytes from the (1) image_type or (2) packet_size file in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/.
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
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External Source: BID
Name: 33428
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-751-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0360
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0331
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0326
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1794
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1787
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1749
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-114.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35394
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35390
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35011
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34981
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34762
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34680
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34502
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34394
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34252
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33758
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33656
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:031
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:030
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:010
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.2
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.13
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=81156928f8fe31621e467490b9d441c0285998c3