high
7.8
CWE
476
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2009-2698: Null Pointer Dereference

First published: Tue Aug 18 2009(Updated: )

The udp_sendmsg function in the UDP implementation in (1) net/ipv4/udp.c and (2) net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving the MSG_MORE flag and a UDP socket.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Kernel<2.6.19
Ubuntu Linux=6.06
Ubuntu Linux=8.04
Ubuntu Linux=8.10
Ubuntu Linux=9.04
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop with Beagle=10-sp2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=10-sp2
Fedoraproject Fedora=10
redhat enterprise Linux desktop=4.0
redhat enterprise Linux desktop=5.0
redhat enterprise Linux eus=4.8
redhat enterprise Linux eus=5.3
redhat enterprise Linux server=4.0
redhat enterprise Linux server=5.0
redhat enterprise Linux server aus=5.3
redhat enterprise Linux workstation=4.0
redhat enterprise Linux workstation=5.0
VMware vCenter Server=4.0
VMware ESXi=4.0

Remedy

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36108

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