CVE-2009-3556

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-01-27
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	1.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2010-0046	2010-01-20