Synopsis: Important: udev security update
Issue date: 2009-04-16
CVE Names: CVE-2009-1185
It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink
messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges
via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a
world-writable block device file for an existing system block device
(for example, the root file system). (CVE-2009-1185)
After installing the update, the udevd daemon will be restarted
automatically.
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.src.rpm
i386:
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
x86_64:
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.i386.rpm
libvolume_id-devel-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
udev-095-14.20.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson