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USN-758-1: udev vulnerabilities

15 April 2009

udev vulnerabilities

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Details

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that udev did not correctly validate netlink
message senders. A local attacker could send specially crafted messages
to udev in order to gain root privileges. (CVE-2009-1185)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the path encoding routines
in udev. A local attacker could exploit this to crash udev, leading to a
denial of service. (CVE-2009-1186)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.