{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-08-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: uninit op in SOCKOPS_WRAP() leads to privesc",
    "id" : "516949",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949"
  },
  "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-456->CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation (sock_sendpage function) on a PF_PPPOX socket." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat is aware of this issue. Please see https://access.redhat.com/articles/18053.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Julien Tinnes (Google Security Team) and Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1239",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-132.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-27T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1233",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-60.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1223",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.0.9.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Z Stream",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1469",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:4.7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-78.0.27.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-08-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1222",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.7.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Z Stream",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1457",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.28.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2692\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2692" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-2692",
  "csaw" : false
}