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kernel: privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-2698
Created:August 24, 2009 Updated:March 21, 2011
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

a flaw was found in the udp_sendmsg() implementation in the Linux kernel when using the MSG_MORE flag on UDP sockets. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a local denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2009-2698, Important)

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:051 kernel 2011-03-18
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1469-01 kernel 2009-09-30
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1457-01 kernel 2009-09-22
CentOS CESA-2009:1233 kernel 2009-08-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:046 kernel 2009-08-28
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1233-01 kernel 2009-08-27
Debian DSA-1872-1 linux-2.6 2009-08-24
CentOS CESA-2009:1222 kernel 2009-08-24
CentOS CESA-2009:1223 kernel 2009-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1222-02 kernel 2009-08-24
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1223-02 kernel 2009-08-24
Ubuntu USN-852-1 linux, linux-source-2.6.15 2009-10-22

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