Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63857
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-758-1 (udev)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-758-1 (udev)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to udev announced via advisory USN-758-1. Details follow: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that udev did not correctly validate netlink message senders. A local attacker could send specially crafted messages to udev in order to gain root privileges. (CVE-2009-1185) Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the path encoding routines in udev. A local attacker could exploit this to crash udev, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-1186) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: udev 079-0ubuntu35.1 Ubuntu 7.10: udev 113-0ubuntu17.2 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: udev 117-8ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 8.10: udev 124-9ubuntu0.2 After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-758-1
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1185 Bugtraq: 20090417 rPSA-2009-0063-1 udev (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502752/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20090711 VMSA-2009-0009 ESX Service Console updates for udev, sudo, and curl (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504849/100/0/threaded http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8572 http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000060.html https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1185 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0063 Debian Security Information: DSA-1772 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1772 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00463.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00462.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-18.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:103 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:104 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0427.html http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.446399 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2009:020 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00006.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2009:025 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00012.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-758-1 BugTraq ID: 34536 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34536 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10925 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5975 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022067 http://secunia.com/advisories/34731 http://secunia.com/advisories/34750 http://secunia.com/advisories/34753 http://secunia.com/advisories/34771 http://secunia.com/advisories/34785 http://secunia.com/advisories/34787 http://secunia.com/advisories/34801 http://secunia.com/advisories/34776 http://secunia.com/advisories/35766 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1053 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1865 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1186 https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1186 BugTraq ID: 34539 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34539 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022068
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