National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0024

Overview

The sys_remap_file_pages function in mm/fremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the vm_file structure member, and the mmap_region and do_munmap functions.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/14/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

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External Source: BID

Name: 33211

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33211

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090112 CVE-2009-0024 kernel: local privilege escalation in sys_remap_file_pages

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26