Debian DSA-1772-1 : udev - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 36172

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Sebastian Kramer discovered two vulnerabilities in udev, the /dev and hotplug management daemon.

- CVE-2009-1185 udev does not check the origin of NETLINK messages, allowing local users to gain root privileges.

- CVE-2009-1186 udev suffers from a buffer overflow condition in path encoding, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the udev package.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.105-4etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.125-7+lenny1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1185

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1186

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1772

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36172

File Name: debian_DSA-1772.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux udev Netlink Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1185, CVE-2009-1186

BID: 34536, 34539

CWE: 119, 20

DSA: 1772