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