{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2009-08-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: udp socket NULL ptr dereference",
    "id" : "518034",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518034"
  },
  "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-476",
  "details" : [ "The udp_sendmsg function in the UDP implementation in (1) net/ipv4/udp.c and (2) net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving the MSG_MORE flag and a UDP socket." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Julien Tinnes (Google Security Team) and Tavis Ormandy for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "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-2009-2698\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2698" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-2698",
  "csaw" : false
}