{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2010-01-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: qla2xxx NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable",
    "id" : "537177",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537177"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-732",
  "details" : [ "A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. Shipped kernels do not include upstream commit d025c9db that introduced the problem.\nThis upstream commit was backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via RHBA-2008:0314 update. Issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via RHSA-2010:0046.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-01-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0046",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-164.11.1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3556\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3556" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-3556",
  "csaw" : false
}