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Slackware Advisory SSA:2009-111-01 udev

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Slackware Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2009-111-01.

Insight

Insight

New udev packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The udev packages in Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current contained a local root hole vulnerability: CVE-2009-1185 The udev packages in Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current had an integer overflow which could result in a denial of service: CVE-2009-1186 Note that udev is only used with 2.6 kernels, which are not used by default with Slackware 10.2 and 11.0.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to the new package(s).

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