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kernel: privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-2692
Created:August 18, 2009 Updated:October 5, 2009
Description: From the Mandriva advisory: The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation on a PF_PPPOX socket.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1469-01 2009-09-30
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1457-01 2009-09-22
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:015 2009-09-15
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:233 2009-09-14
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1239-02 2009-09-01
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1239-01 2009-09-01
CentOS CESA-2009:1233 2009-08-29
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1233-01 2009-08-27
Fedora FEDORA-2009-9044 2009-08-27
Slackware SSA:2009-231-01 2009-08-20
CentOS CESA-2009:1222 2009-08-24
CentOS CESA-2009:1223 2009-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1222-02 2009-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1223-02 2009-08-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:045 2009-08-20
Ubuntu USN-819-1 2009-08-19
Slackware SSA:2009-230-01 2009-08-19
rPath rPSA-2009-0121-1 2009-08-18
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8649 2009-08-15
Fedora FEDORA-2009-8647 2009-08-15
Debian DSA-1865-1 2009-08-16
Debian DSA-1864-1 2009-08-16
Debian DSA-1862-1 2009-08-14
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:205 2009-09-17
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10165 2009-10-03

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