{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2009-09-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: missing capability check in z90crypt",
    "id" : "505983",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505983"
  },
  "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 z90crypt_unlocked_ioctl function in the z90crypt driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 does not perform a capability check for the Z90QUIESCE operation, which allows local users to leverage euid 0 privileges to force a driver outage." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect kernel packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1438",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.0.11.EL"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1883\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1883" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-1883",
  "csaw" : false
}