CVE-2009-3556
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 27, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 5, 2009
Description
A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20100120 CVE-2009-3556 kernel: qla2xxx NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writablemailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9738vdb-entrysignature
- kernel-qla2xxx-security-bypass(55809)vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2010:019vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6744vdb-entrysignature
- RHSA-2010:0095vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2010:0046vendor-advisory
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