{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-04-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "udev: Uncheck origin of NETLINK messages",
    "id" : "495051",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495051"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-862",
  "details" : [ "udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space." ],
  "statement" : "udev packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 are not affected by this flaw, as they do not use netlink sockets for communication. udev is not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer (SUSE Security Team) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0427",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "udev-0:095-14.20.el5_3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1185\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1185" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1185",
  "csaw" : false
}