{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2009-01-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: utf8 selection memory corruption",
    "id" : "491787",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491787"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The console selection feature in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.4, 2.6.25, and possibly earlier versions, when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which triggers an \"off-by-two memory error.\" NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0451",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-111.el5rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1046\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1046" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1046",
  "csaw" : false
}