Summary
The remote host is missing an update to udev
announced via advisory DSA 1772-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201772-1
Insight
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.
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.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your udev package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1185, CVE-2009-1186 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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