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CVE-2009-2698
high
Description
The udp_sendmsg function in the UDP implementation in (1) net/ipv4/udp.c and (2) net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving the MSG_MORE flag and a UDP socket.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518034
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100067254
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1223.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1222.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00008.html