{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-02-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) check",
    "id" : "493771",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493771"
  },
  "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 exit_notify function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc1 does not restrict exit signals when the CAP_KILL capability is held, which allows local users to send an arbitrary signal to a process by running a program that modifies the exit_signal field and then uses an exec system call to launch a setuid application." ],
  "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"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1550",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-63.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1024",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Z Stream",
    "release_date" : "2009-06-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:4.7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.24.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-05-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0473",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.1.10.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1337\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1337" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1337",
  "csaw" : false
}